About
Jacob Thornton worked as an early engineer at Twitter, Medium, and Coinbase over more than a decade in the Bay Area. He co-created Twitter Bootstrap and has contributed to open source projects, spoken at conferences, and authored technical writing.
Jacob @fat
Many such people have been asking… who is pierre? https://t.co/NuHyNY42nx https://t.co/tgdveHCx52
Jul 17, 2026 · ♥ 132 · ⇄ 5
Jacob @fat
For the new editable diffs[dot]com functionality, we pointed agents at existing MIT-licensed editor test suites (Codemirror, Monaco, Atom, etc.) and had them analyze the nearly ~6k tests for missing behavioral coverage. After about 14 hours, we added 195 net new test cases, 30
Jul 16, 2026 · ♥ 123 · ⇄ 4
Jacob @fat
Diffs[dot]com… with native edit, preview coming soon. https://t.co/mCihiKMCgR
Jul 16, 2026 · ♥ 251 · ⇄ 4
Founder at PierreYC W23
Intro paths
Jacob went through Y Combinator (Winter 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Pierre's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Jacob can intro founders to Pierre's investors below.
Pierre's investors · 4
Co-founders at Pierre
Experience
- PierreChief Executive Officercurrent2023 — presentOakland, California, United States
- CoinbaseSr. Staff Software Engineer2021 — 2023Seattle, Washington, United States
- CoinbaseStaff Software Engineer2020 — 2021Seattle, Washington, United States
- CoinbaseEngineer Manager2018 — 2020
- BumpersCo-Founder2016 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
- MediumSoftware Engineer2013 — 2016San Francisco Bay Area
- TwitterSoftware Engineer2010 — 2013San Francisco Bay Area
Education
- The New SchoolMaster's degree, Sociology
Skills & more
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Shared employers
Also worked at Pierre1
Also worked at Coinbase93
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