Keith Adams

software engineer and venture capitalist, founder of Facebook AI Research and co-founder of Pebblebed

Keith Adams is a software engineer and venture capitalist who founded Facebook AI Research (FAIR), was chief architect at Slack, and co-founded the venture capital firm Pebblebed, where he is a managing partner.

Career

Adams was the 20th engineer at VMware, where he spent nine years, co-authored a paper on modern virtual machine implementation and was named on more than a dozen patents. At Facebook, from 2009 to 2015, he built the HipHop Virtual Machine and in 2013 founded Facebook AI Research. He then became Slack's first chief architect, responsible for its overall technical architecture. After Slack he advised ICONIQ Capital, Grishin Robotics and Ubiquity Ventures before co-founding Pebblebed with Pamela Vagata, a founding member of OpenAI.