About
Kent Goodman is a co-founder of Maywood with prior experience at Boston Consulting Group. He studied electrical engineering and computer science and management at MIT.
Founder at MaywoodYC W26
Intro paths
YC
Kent went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Jon Xu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Maywood's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Kent can intro founders to Maywood's investors below.
Maywood's investors · 1
Co-founders at Maywood
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Drake GoodmanFounder
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Esteban VizcainoFounder
Experience
- MaywoodAI Engineercurrent2025 — present
- Boston Consulting Group (BCG)AI Consultant2025
- Tensile Capital ManagementInvestor2024
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyNLP Researcher2022 — 2024
- Belveron PartnersInvestor2023
- University of California, San FranciscoResearcher2020 — 2022San Francisco, California, United States
- Redwood barkEditor In Chief2021 — 2022
- Redwood barkFeatures Editor2020 — 2021
Skills & more
Natural Language Processing (NLP)1Equity Research1Investment Analysis1Financial ModelingValuationMicrosoft ExcelPythonEnglishData AnalysisSpanishC++
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Kent Goodman?
- Kent Goodman is a co-founder of Maywood with prior experience at Boston Consulting Group. He studied electrical engineering and computer science and management at MIT.
- Where does Kent Goodman work?
- Kent Goodman is Founder of Maywood.
- What companies did Kent Goodman found?
- Kent Goodman founded Maywood.
- Where did Kent Goodman go to school?
- Kent Goodman studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bachelor's degree, Machine Learning and Finance double major); Redwood High School, TUHSD.
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Redwood High School, TUHSD mafia3
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Shared employers
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Also worked at Boston Consulting Group (BCG)907
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