6x founder

Ryan Waliany

Founder & CEO @ Ambiguous AI • 0→$10M ARR ×2 • $40M+ raised • Ex-Uber • Building the future of human + AI collaboration

Co-founder

Ambiguous· 005 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

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2025Co-founder· Ambiguous

Founder · since 2006

Company

Ambiguous

Role

Co-Founder, CEO

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

San Francisco Bay Area

current

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

Source: LinkedIn work history

Profile coverage5 of 7 · missing posts, contact

Ambiguous

AI coworkers that work like teammates.

005

Experience

Career

Ambiguous
Co-founder
Co-Founder, CEO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2025
Doorstead
Chairperson of the Board · 2025 – Present
2025
Doorstead
Co-founder
Co-Founder, CEO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2019 – 2025
2019
Tasting Collective
Advisor · Greater New York City Area · 2017 – 2024
2017
SMBX
Advisor · San Francisco · 2019 – 2023
2019
Hyphen
Advisor · San Francisco Bay Area · 2018 – 2022
2018
Cal Alumni Association | UC Berkeley
Vice President of Finance, Board of Directors · Berkeley, CA · 2016 – 2020
2016
Uber
Product · San Francisco Bay Area · 2016 – 2019
2016
Kitchenbowl (acquired by ABC Cooking Studio)
Co-founder
Co-Founder, CEO · Seattle, WA · 2013 – 2016
2013
ZowPow
Advisor · San Francisco Bay Area · 2014 – 2015
2014
Idealix Inc.
Co-founder
CEO & Co-Founder · 2010 – 2013
2010
Bullet Media, Inc. (now Adlogica)
Co-founder
CTO & Co-Founder · San Francisco · 2010 – 2012
2010
Buysight, Inc. / Permuto (acquired by AOL)
Engineer · Palo Alto, CA · 2009 – 2010
2009
Self-Employed
Entrepreneur · Pittsburgh, PA · 2008 – 2010
2008
HotSwap
Co-founder
CTO & Co-Founder · Berkeley, CA · 2006 – 2008
2006
Microsoft
Research Software Developer Engineer · Redmond, WA · 2006
2006
JPL (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Summer Intern · Pasadena, CA · 2005
2005

Bio

Ryan Waliany is a serial entrepreneur and investor, currently founder and CEO of Ambiguous, where he builds AI coworkers that collaborate with humans through everyday tools like email, Slack, and Google Docs. He has a track record of scaling ventures from idea to multi-million-dollar businesses, combining operational expertise with a vision for the future of work.