Alex Kolchinski.

CEO, ThunderPhone · San Francisco

I'm the CEO at ThunderPhone, a voice AI startup.

Before ThunderPhone, I was the CEO at Mezli (YC W21). And before that, I was a PhD student at the Stanford AI Lab. Outside of work, I read and write, climb, ski, and play tennis.

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ThunderPhonethunderphone.com ↗︎A voice AI platform that sets records on intelligence and price.
TranslateMyCalltranslatemycall.com ↗︎Live two-way translation for phone calls, across 70+ languages.

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previously

Mezli — Cofounder and CEO2020–23The world's first fully-autonomous restaurant (YC W21)Raised $4M, led a team of 20+, sold 10,000 meals at 50% gross margins, then had to shut down when I couldn't raise a Series A.Launch video ↗︎ · Machine video ↗︎ · Eater SF ↗︎ · TechCrunch ↗︎ · CNBC ↗︎
Google — Associate Product Manager2014–16PM on Google Surveys and Dynamic Search AdsData Quality PM on Google Surveys (then Consumer Surveys). Engaged closely with 2016 presidential campaign polling.

education

Y Combinator — W212021Winter 2021 batch, as CEO of Mezli.Built a prototype auto-kitchen in a shipping container and raised a seed round in 3 months!
Stanford — MA (PhD dropout)2020MA, Education (Individually designed — human and machine learning)Stanford AI Lab: three first-author papers in ML and NLP.Left the PhD track to start Mezli.Alpine Club president · Ski Team · Philharmonia3 AI papers — Google Scholar ↗︎
UChicago — BS/MS2014BS/MS, Computer Science (AI concentration), Statistics minorFirst student to complete UChicago's BS and MS in CS in four years.University Scholarship · Phi Beta Kappa · Rhodes nomineeEngineering Society cofounder/president · Rugby · Symphony · DKE

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