Orion Despo
Co-Founder at Dntel
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolOrion Despo is a founder and product-minded technologist with a decade of experience building data-driven businesses and research systems from Stanford labs to high-growth fintech. As Co-Founder of Dntel, he’s scaling one of the largest dental billing platforms in the U.S., combining product, growth, and technical leadership. His background spans applied ML and bioinformatics research, quant trading signal discovery, and hands-on engineering work in maps and data visualization, reflecting a rare fluency between research and product execution. At Brex he led growth and later general management roles, and as an EIR at Thrive he evaluated new startup opportunities—showing both operator chops and investor-facing insight. Notably, his early work with Fei-Fei Li on unsupervised video segmentation and automated medical imaging diagnosis demonstrates deep technical roots that still inform his product decisions. Based in Palo Alto, he blends startup grit with academic rigor to build scalable, impact-focused platforms.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Marvin Ridge High SchoolMaster's degree Statistics, Master's degree Statistics at Stanford UniversityGithub contributions (4)
lxrogers/CS221SAT
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:78 commits, 64 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 month
odespo/antiquephoneshow-web
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:4 pushes in 4 days
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