About
Jake Stevens is a cofounder at Luminal, which develops automated GPU kernel generation for machine learning models. He previously worked at Apple.
Jake Stevens @stake_jevens
Rate my roadtrip coding setup: - @Tesla model 3 with FSD 14.3 - Claude code - @WisprFlow for hands free commands - 16β M4 Max - Starbucks shaken espresso https://t.co/7gXbYO1Hv3
Aug 1, 2026 Β· β₯ 13
Jake Stevens @stake_jevens
I have been stunned, STUNNED consistently by how bad their software is. They misfiled our corporate payroll taxes last year (no user error here, it was all on them) and caused a huge mess for me. I emailed the CEO, apparently he yelled at a bunch of people internally but then https://t.co/1idya1SCqm
Jul 31, 2026 Β· β₯ 185 Β· β 1
Jake Stevens @stake_jevens
100% agree. The corollary to this is you must hold your employees to a high standard https://t.co/EUjetGgqzZ
Jul 29, 2026 Β· β₯ 2
Founder at LuminalYC S25
Intro paths
Jake went through Y Combinator (Summer 2025) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Luminal's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Jake can intro founders to Luminal's investors below.
Luminal's investors Β· 3
Co-founders at Luminal
