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# Jeevan Kalanithi on Tal

## Headline

CEO at openspace\.ai

## About

I'm a technology executive, technologist and entrepreneur\. My background is in artificial intelligence, drones and cameras, management and leadership, and product design\. My first startup Sifteo – co\-founded with David Merrill and based on our graduate work from MIT and our TED talk – was acquired by North America's largest drone company, 3D Robotics, in 2014\. At 3DR, I served as VP Product, Chief Product Officer, and President\. I spent time at Lux Capital, a VC firm with \~$2B under management, before starting my second company, OpenSpace\. My and my teams' work has been featured in TED, The New York Times, WIRED and more; our products have been sold in boutique retail \(NY's MoMA store\), large format retail nationally and globally \(Best Buy, Toys R Us, Amazon\); I have worked on art projects shown at the MoMA, SFMoMA, Oslo Philharmonic, Paris' Villette Numerique and the Miami Museum of Art\. I have run teams from 1 to >300 people, and partnered with companies such as Nickelodeon, Sony and Autodesk to launch and sell products globally at scale\. I am an alumnus of MIT \(graduate work at the Media Lab\), Stanford \(BS in Symbolic Systems\), and the Screen Actors Guild \(no, I'm not a good actor\)\.

## Location

San Francisco

## AI stack

claude code

## Education

MS, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

BS, Symbolic Systems \(Artificial Intelligence\), Stanford University

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