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Josh Payne is the founder and CEO of Coframe, a company focused on AI-driven experimentation and personalization that is backed by Khosla Ventures and Nat Friedman. He previously co-founded Autograph and AccessBell, which was acquired by Tata Group, and was on the founding team of Marlin. His technical work includes 20+ papers and patents, creating the GPT-Migrate and Coffee open-source projects, and guest lecturing at Stanford on code generation and LLMs; he also performs as a percussionist with the SF Philharmonic.
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Experience
- CoframeFoundercurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- AutographSenior Advisorcurrent2023 — present
- AutographCo-Founder2020 — 2023Los Angeles County, CA
- Stanford UniversityGuest Lecturercurrent2020 — present
- AccessBellCo-Founder2020 — 2021Palo Alto, California, United States
- MarlinFounding Team2018 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
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Unicycling
Languages Cherokee
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- Who is Josh Payne?
- Josh Payne is the founder and CEO of Coframe, a company focused on AI-driven experimentation and personalization that is backed by Khosla Ventures and Nat Friedman. He previously co-founded Autograph and AccessBell, which was acquired by Tata Group, and was on the founding team of Marlin. His technical work includes 20+ papers and patents, creating the GPT-Migrate and Coffee open-source projects, and guest lecturing at Stanford on code generation and LLMs; he also performs as a percussionist with the SF Philharmonic.
- Where does Josh Payne work?
- Josh Payne is Founder of Coframe.
- What companies did Josh Payne found?
- Josh Payne founded Coframe, Coframe.
- Where did Josh Payne go to school?
- Josh Payne studied at Stanford University School of Engineering (MS, Computer Science (AI)); Stanford University Graduate School of Business (MBA); Stanford University (Bachelor of Science (honors), Math & Computational Science).
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