Dillon Erb is a founder and AI strategist with 11 years of experience building companies and products at the intersection of cloud infrastructure and frontier reasoning systems. He led Paperspace as CEO, shaped AI direction as VP of AI Strategy at DigitalOcean, and now co-founded Autonomous to build a superintelligent financial advisor. Based in New York, he advises and invests in generative AI startups like Runway and brings a rare blend of operational leadership, research experience from Michigan, and an architect's design training. His background in philosophy and architecture informs a systems-minded approach to product and safety, while his YC stints reflect deep startup operator instincts.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
F25, F25 at Y Combinator
Master of Architecture (M.Arch.), Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) at University of Michigan
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 10 months
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Dillon Erb - Co-Founder at Autonomous Technologies Group