About
Ethan Byrd is the founder of Primitive. He previously founded Actual AI and held engineering roles at Microsoft, AWS, Facebook, and Google.
Founder at primitiveYC X26
Intro paths
YC
Ethan went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Pete Koomen, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran primitive's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Ethan can intro founders to primitive's investors below.