Ben Spector

Founder & CEO

Co-founder and CEO of Flapping Airplanes. Stanford PhD who studied under Chris Re. Previously founded Prod, a talent incubator behind Cursor, Mercor, Etched, and Decart.

Overview

Companies
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Roles
Founder & CEO

Companies

1 company
Flapping Airplanes $180M
Private Founder & CEO

AI research lab focused on solving the data-efficiency problem in AI. Named after the metaphor that current AI scaling is like putting flapping wings on an airplane rather than discovering aerodynamic principles.

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