Summary
Peterish Newell is a veteran technology founder and engineer with a decade of formal experience and a career stretching back to early virtual worlds and multimedia, now co-founding AI-driven ventures in music and proptech. He blends hands-on software engineering—shipping e-commerce systems, recommendation engines, and DevOps—with leadership in immersive tech, digital twins, VR/AR and generative AI. At Matterport he linked 3D captures to construction workflows and automated property descriptions, and at REI he ran innovation programs that turned hackathon ideas into customer-facing experiences like virtual store tours and AI image analysis. He has repeatedly parlayed experimental prototypes into products, from a Discord LLM music mentor and artist analytics at Gigaton to marketplace and sharing-economy platforms at Bright Neighbor. Based in Las Vegas, he pairs an entrepreneurial mindset with deep curiosity about the physical/digital intersection—an approach rooted in work dating back to Metaversatility and early virtual world monetization. Colleagues know him for turning playful tech experiments into pragmatic solutions that scale.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Trinity University
Sandra Day O'Connor HS