Stephen Hood
Co-Founder And CEO at Telepath
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Hood is a veteran founder and product leader with over a decade of experience building consumer and business software, AI/ML tooling, mobile apps, gaming, and education technology. As co-founder and CEO of Storium and Blockboard and current CEO of a stealth startup, he blends product strategy, design, and engineering to turn playful ideas into viable businesses. He led product and growth at iconic web companies like del.icio.us and Yahoo, and later spearheaded Mozilla’s open-source AI efforts, founding Llamafile—a single-file LLM runner that amassed over 22K GitHub stars and millions of downloads. Comfortable moving between maker and executive roles, he has a track record of shipping user-focused products, raising venture funding, and successfully exiting startups. Based in California, he’s known for democratizing AI tools and for applying gameful mechanics to drive real-world engagement and learning.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Indiana University - Bloomington
Github Skills (26)
jetbrains10
intellij10
pycharm10
copilot10
chatgpt9
vscode9
developer-tools9
ai8
llm8
openai8
open-source7
firefox7
visual-studio-code6
monorepo5
payment-gateway4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
stlhood/stlhood.github.io
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
stlhood/gurps-horse
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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