3x founder

Michael Mayernick

Co-founder & CEO, botbot.com | Building an AI-native company and writing about it at Inside AI Native | Believer in the wildly impractical

Co-founder

BotBot· Speedrun 005 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

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2025CEO· BotBot

Founder · since 2009

Company

BotBot

Role

CEO

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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Based

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

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BotBot

Aligning AI to brand and outcomes: the UX layer for the AI era.

Speedrun 005

Experience

Career

BotBot
CEO · 2025 – Present
2025
Checkmate
Senior Vice President, AI · San Francisco Bay Area · 2024 – 2025
2024
IBM
Director of Product Engineering and Innovation Lead, Watson Orders · San Jose, California, United States · 2022 – 2024
2022
McD Tech Labs
Director of Product Engineering · Mountain View, California, United States · 2020 – 2022
2020
Sandbox
Board Chair · 2014 – 2021
2014
Spinnakr
Co-founder
Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder · San Francisco Bay Area · 2012 – 2020
2012
World Economic Forum
Global Shaper · San Francisco Bay Area · 2015 – 2019
2015
[Startup Digest]
DC Curator · 2010 – 2015
2010
ProudlyMadeInDC
Co-founder
Co-founder · Washington, DC · 2010 – 2015
2010
Acceleprise
Mentor · 2012 – 2015
2012
Giv.to
Co-founder
Co-founder · Washington, DC · 2009 – 2012
2009
PreferenceSet
Owner · 2009 – 2011
2009
American Parliamentary Debate Association
Member of the Executive Board · Greater New York City Area · 2005 – 2009
2005
BearingPoint
Systems Analyst · 2005 – 2007
2005

Bio

I'm an entrepreneur and software engineer who has spent his career working in applied AI and machine learning. I previously led Engineering at McDonald's AI labs (McD Techlabs) and later IBM Watson Orders, which was responsible for the McDonald's Drive-thru AI project. Prior to that, I was the technical co-founder of a venture backed, predictive analytics startup Spinnakr.