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Aidan Smith

Founder

Founder at Flapping Airplanes

San Francisco Bay Area

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Thiel Fellow 2025

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381 people in our graph share verified history with Aidan — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Dave MunichiellounlockedAidan: together at Flapping Airplanes (2025–2026)
×2Aidan: together at Flapping Airplanes
×5Aidan: together at Chess.com
×4Aidan: together at Thiel Fellowship 2025

About

Aidan Smith of Mountain View, CA was named a Thiel Fellow in the class of 2025, the Thiel Foundation's program that pays young founders a two-year stipend to build instead of finishing a degree. The Foundation's announcement for that class records that they were working on Innerphases.

Founder at Flapping Airplanes

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In turn, Aidan can intro founders to Flapping Airplanes's investors below.

Flapping Airplanes's investors · 8

ArgoNew York · since 2026ConvictionSan Francisco · $1M – $25M checks · since 2026FundomoNew York · since 2026GV (Google Ventures)Mountain View · $250K – $50M checks · since 2026Index VenturesSan Francisco · $540K – $10.8M checks · since 2026Lux CapitalNew York · $100K – $100M checks · since 2026Menlo VenturesSan Francisco · $1M – $20M checks · since 2026Sequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checks · since 2026

Co-founders at Flapping Airplanes

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ASHER SPECTORExecutive Officer, Director
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BENJAMIN SPECTORExecutive Officer, Director

Experience

  1. Flapping AirplanesCo-Flappercurrent2025 — presentthe skies
  2. The Thiel FoundationThiel Fellowcurrent2025 — present
  3. NeuralinkBCI Software Engineer2022 — 2025Fremont, California, United States
  4. Chess.comWeb Developer2020 — 2022Mountain View, California, United States

Skills & more

Machine LearningKubernetesFront-end Development2ProgrammingTypeScriptExpress.jsEntrepreneurshipTechnical DocumentationSecurityAPI DevelopmentARIATwig
+12 moreWeb DevelopmentSymfony FrameworkPattern RecognitionPyTorchRuby on RailsJavaScriptVue.jsSASSReact.jsShopifyComputer HardwareCascading Style Sheets (CSS)

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Aidan Smith?
Aidan Smith of Mountain View, CA was named a Thiel Fellow in the class of 2025, the Thiel Foundation's program that pays young founders a two-year stipend to build instead of finishing a degree. The Foundation's announcement for that class records that they were working on Innerphases.
Where does Aidan Smith work?
Aidan Smith is Founder of Flapping Airplanes.
What companies did Aidan Smith found?
Aidan Smith founded Flapping Airplanes.
Where did Aidan Smith go to school?
Aidan Smith studied at Georgia Institute of Technology (Bachelor's degree (dropped out), Computer Science); Mountain View High School (High School Diploma).

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