3x founder

Stephen Gou

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Co-founder

First Day Entertainment· Speedrun 002 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States

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2023Co-founder· First Day Entertainment

Founder · since 2017

Company

First Day Entertainment

Role

Cofounder

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

California, United States

current

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

Source: LinkedIn work history

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First Day Entertainment

Pioneering AI-powered Games

Speedrun 002

Experience

Career

First Day Entertainment
Co-founder
Cofounder · California, United States · 2023 – Present
2023
Cohere
Founder
Founding Engineer · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2020 – 2023
2020
Uber
Research Engineer Intern · Toronto, Canada Area · 2019 – 2020
2019
Lucky VR
Founder
Founding Engineer · Toronto, Canada Area · 2017 – 2018
2017
BRIOXR (Acquired by Adobe)
Lead Software Engineer · Toronto, Canada Area · 2016 – 2017
2016
Crystal Dynamics
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2015 – 2016
2015
Blizzard Entertainment
Shader Writer Intern · Irvine, CA · 2014
2014

Bio

Stephen is an expert in LLM and game development. Previously the founding engineer at Cohere, a multi-billion dollar foundation model startup where he researched and developed LLMs and applied models at scale. Stephen also had years of experience in game development with Triple-A game studios.