Josh Payne
Builder + musician. Incepto ne desistam
- Based in the Bay Area
- Went to Stanford 3x ð, have 1 degree ð and have had 0 commencements ð¢
- Grew up mostly in Texas
- Founder of Coframe, building living interfaces
- Co-founder of Autograph ($200M+ raised/unicorn), recently senior advisor
- Co-founder of AccessBell (sold to Tata Group)
- Founding team of Marlin Protocol ($POND on Coinbase etc)
- Founder of Stanford COVID-19 Response Lab (450+ members at peak)
- 20+ patents and papers in AI, quantum computing, infosec (Nature, IEEE, NeurIPS)
- Created GPT-Migrate, prev #1 on GitHub trending
- Co-created Coffee, another AI code generation project with 1k+ stars on GitHub
- Timpanist/percussionist for SF Philharmonic and SF Civic Symphony
- Drummer/composer/producer of two jazz albums
- Composed an orchestral piece played by the Stanford Symphony Orchestra
- Performed with Josh Redman, SÅ Percussion, Jeff Clayton, others
- Guest lecturer for CS 224G, fmr head TA for CS 335 at Stanford
- Angel investor in 20+ early-stage technology companies
- Advisor to several VC-backed companies across multiple stages and sectors