Thomson Nguyen
Co-Founder, Managing Partner at Saga
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolThomson Nguyen is a founder and data-driven technology leader with 17 years of experience building and scaling AI- and analytics-first businesses from San Francisco. He co-founded and led startups through acquisition twice—Framed Data (acquired by Square) and Nearside (acquired by Plastiq for $130M)—and now invests in emerging companies as Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Saga. His background blends hands-on machine learning and product work (head of Capital Data Science at Square/Block) with academic research as a visiting scholar in bioinformatics, generative AI, and cybersecurity at NYU’s Courant Institute. Thomson excels at turning predictive models into revenue-driving products for SMBs and enterprises, and he has repeatedly attracted top-tier investors like Kleiner Perkins and GV. Less obvious: he alternates between operator and researcher roles, combining startup execution with deep technical experimentation to identify high-leverage opportunities.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at University of California, BerkeleyApplied Mathematics, Applied Mathematics at University of Cambridge
Vietnamese, Spanish, English
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Github Skills (12)
cli-generator4
django4
dockerfile4
makefile4
bootstrap4
docker3
cli2
generator2
twitter1
stata1
twitter-api1
ycombinator1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
itsthomson/todayiwill
Apr 2010 - Sep 2011
Contributions:118 commits in 1 year 5 months
itsthomson/todo-list
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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