Jake Seaton
Chairman Of The Board at Column
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Seaton is a technology leader and founder with 11 years of experience building startups and applied ML platforms from the San Francisco Bay Area. He co-founded Quorum after leaving Harvard and later launched Column—scaling public-notice software out of a five-generation family newspaper business—and now serves on the leadership team of AfterQuery’s applied research lab teaching machines to learn. Jake blends hands-on engineering (self-taught neural nets and synthetic training data used in Harvard linguistics research) with operator-level experience running product-focused companies. He is an active angel investor and mentor, supporting early-stage startups including Roboflow and Anduril, and brings a practical bridge between research and productization. Known for turning domain expertise in public affairs and publishing into scalable SaaS, he combines entrepreneurial grit with deep curiosity about AI’s real-world impact.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science & Journalism, Bachelor's degree Computer Science & Journalism at Harvard University
Spanish, Italian, English
Github Skills (47)
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selenium9
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persist8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jakeseaton/jakeseaton.github.io
Jan 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 136 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
jakeseaton/HitThat
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:42 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
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