← back

Peter Gao

28.2
Founder Score · medium confidence
2/5 signal groups
Track record 11.2/30 Career 17.0/20 Shipping 0.0/30 Research 0.0/10 Network 0.0/10
Track record
  • prior exit: Aquarium Learning
Career
  • worked at Cruise
  • also worked at Khan Academy, Pinterest
  • studied at UC Berkeley

Opportunities

all opportunities ▸

Internal company pages for screening and memo — not external source links.

No sourced opportunity yet — only GitHub / HN / PH / Devpost / arXiv / inbound ventures appear here (not career employers).

About

Peter was an early employee (#18) at Cruise, where he built a large part of a self driving car from scratch. Before that, Peter did research on deep learning at UC Berkeley. Before that, he interned at Pinterest and Khan Academy, doing a mix of ML and web work. Now cofounder at Aquarium!

Activation — cold outreach, not cold investment

Generates a personal note referencing this founder's actual work, inviting a real application.

Add / edit details

On save, the model re-reads scraped profile text plus your investor details, then rebuilds Experience / Education (adds and removes) and refreshes the score.

Ventures

Aquarium
founded
Enriched

Experience

Cruise · YC Winter 2014
worked at · Acquired
Enriched
Pinterest
worked at
Enriched
Khan Academy
worked at
Enriched

Education

UC Berkeley
studied at · institution
Enriched