2x founder

Ethan Byrd

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Founder

2026Founder· primitive.dev (YC P26)

Founder · since 2024

Company

primitive.dev (YC P26)

Role

founder

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

San Francisco, California, United States

current

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

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Experience

Career

primitive.dev (YC P26)
Founder
founder · San Francisco, California, United States · 2026 – Present
2026
Actual AI
Founder
Founder & CTO · Seattle, Washington, United States · 2024 – 2026
2024
Google
Software Engineer · 2022 – 2024
2022
Meta
Software Engineer · 2021 – 2022
2021
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Software Development Engineer · Seattle, Washington · 2020 – 2021
2020
Microsoft
Software Engineer · 2018 – 2019
2018

Building primitive. Formerly founder of Actual AI and engineering @ Microsoft/AWS/FB/Google.