2x founder

Ralph Gootee

CTO of Lennar. Formerly TigerEye, YC, PlanGrid, Pixar, Sony and Johns Hopkins.

Co-founder

PlanGrid· Winter 2012 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

in LinkedIn

2026CTO· Lennar

Founder · since 2011

Company

Lennar

Role

CTO

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

Profile coverage5 of 7 · missing posts, contact

PlanGrid

Mobile applications for the construction industry.

Winter 2012

Experience

Career

Lennar
CTO · 2026 – Present
2026
TigerEye
Co-founder
Co-founder & CTO · 2021 – 2026
2021
Y Combinator
Visiting Partner · 2020 – 2021
2020
Autodesk
Chief Software Architect · 2019 – 2020
2019
PlanGrid
Co-founder
Co-Founder and CTO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2011 – 2019
2011
Pixar Animation Studios
Systems Software Engineer · 2010 – 2011
2010
Sony
Software Architect · 2009 – 2010
2009
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Software Engineer and Mathematician · 2004 – 2009
2004

Bio

My name is Ralph. - I'm a second time founder, my first company exited to ADSK for $900m Net. - My background is abstract mathematics - I have 3 young children - My free time is spent reading and drawing