Summary
Jakub Jurových is a founder and CEO with 13 years of engineering and startup leadership experience, best known for founding Deepnote and earning recognition on Forbes 30 Under 30 and YC S19. With an academic grounding in human-computer interaction and an MPhil in Advanced Computer Science from Cambridge, he blends product-focused UX sensibilities with deep technical chops across developer tooling and collaborative data workflows. Previously CTO at Operam and Unite and an early Firefox DevTools engineer, he has a track record of building developer-facing platforms that scale from prototype to production. Based in San Francisco, he pairs operator-level product execution with a research-informed approach to HCI, and recently expanded his leadership toolkit through the dy/dx program at Stanford GSB. Notably, his career weaves competitive hackathon beginnings into sustained startup building, emphasizing practical collaboration and developer productivity.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
dy/dx, dy/dx at Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Masaryk University Brno
MPhil in Advanced Computer Science, MPhil in Advanced Computer Science at University of Cambridge
Slovak, English, French, Czech, Spanish