Summary
John Voorhees is a founder and CEO with nine years of hands-on experience building VR-first developer tools that turn codebases into interactive 3D environments augmented by AI. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and an MBA-trained entrepreneur, he leads Primitive.io to rethink how teams comprehend and collaborate on complex software through voice-controlled AI assistants in VR. His background spans startups, film production, and solar engineering, giving him a rare mix of creative storytelling, hardware-savvy CAD/thermal design, and Unity/C# software craft. He has produced feature films while also authoring market research and grant applications, demonstrating an ability to translate technical work into persuasive narratives for investors and partners. Notably, he applies cinematic production discipline to UX and team workflows, treating software architecture as an explorable spatial system rather than just text.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Entrepreneurship, MBA Entrepreneurship at Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Bachelor of Arts Engineering, Bachelor of Arts Engineering at Brown University
High School, High School at Boulder High School
french, greek