3x founder

Gavin Bains

Co-Founder @ Paper Instruments

Co-founder

2025Co-founder· Paper Instruments

Founder · since 2017

Company

Paper Instruments

Role

Co-Founder

current

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no public source

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no public source

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

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Paper Instruments

Open-source frontier models for knowledge work

Experience

Career

Paper Instruments
Co-founder
Co-Founder · 2025 – Present
2025
Traba
Senior Software Engineer · New York City Metropolitan Area · 2023 – 2025
2023
Stealth Startup
Founder
Founding Engineer · New York City Metropolitan Area · 2022 – 2023
2022
Tydo
Senior Software Engineer · 2021 – 2022
2021
Kleiner Perkins
Engineering Fellow · 2020 – 2021
2020
Honey
Software Engineer 2 · 2020 – 2021
2020
LavaLab
Director of Operations · 2018 – 2020
2018
Tesla
Software Engineer · 2019
2019
University of Southern California
Blockchain Research · 2018 – 2019
2018
IBM
Software Engineer (NLP) · 2018
2018
Troy Labs
Founder
Founding Partner · 2017 – 2018
2017

Building Paper Instruments