Dina YerlanHey, I'm Dina 👋
I like to build products that make people's lives better. I believe AI can make our future amazing in ways we can barely imagine today, if we do it right.I'm cofounder and CEO of Matrices, a platform to manage a fleet of agents. Before this, I led product at Adobe Firefly, deployed ML solutions for Fortune 100 companies at BCG, and was a founding engineer at Source AI (acquired).

I studied Computer Engineering and HCI at CMU, where I worked on RoboTutor, an AI tutor to teach children math without any adult supervision, and attempted my first startup building wearables for frontline healthcare workers.

Outside of work, I'm a founding member of AGI House, a community where hackers build cool stuff together, and I also angel invest in friends' startups.

In my free time, I love films (hope to make a movie someday!) and gravitate toward hands-on activities away from screens like painting, cooking, visiting nice bookshops and flipping through architecture books. I also like walking a lot (20K+ steps daily) and find my best ideas emerge on foot.

I live in San Francisco and the best way to reach me is via my email dinayerlan01@gmail.com. I also sometimes post things on Twitter.

Blog

Yes, LLMs make you stupid

You learn more from success than failures

Superlinear returns

Enterprise AI products are underwhelming

How to eval LLMs 101

Universal principles of design

I am bearish on incumbents