2x founder

Daniel Kwak

VP Finance @ Perplexity

Co-founder

2026Vice President Finance· Perplexity

Founder · since 2020

Company

Perplexity

Role

Vice President Finance

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

San Francisco Bay Area

current

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

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Paperplane

Credit risk management platform for builders' merchants

Experience

Career

Perplexity
Vice President Finance · San Francisco Bay Area · 2026 – Present
2026
Perplexity
Head of Finance & Corporate Development · San Francisco Bay Area · 2024 – Present
2024
Paperplane
Co-founder
Co-founder · New York City Metropolitan Area · 2021 – 2024
2021
Hadrian
Founder
Founding Team · San Francisco Bay Area · 2020 – 2021
2020
Point72
AI/ML · San Francisco Bay Area · 2017 – 2020
2017
Goldman Sachs
Investment Banking · San Francisco Bay Area · 2015 – 2017
2015
Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT
Researcher · Cambridge, MA · 2013 – 2015
2013

Computational physics + ML PhD dropout.