CARSON KAHN

🤖 Head of Foundation Models & VP, AI Labs @ Salesforce
🛠️ Fmr. Co-Founder & CTO for AI, Spindle AI
(acquired by Salesforce)

🧠 Fmr. President, Brainspace AI (acquired by Reveal)
🦾 Fmr. CTO & Founder, Volley ML (JPMorgan)
👾 Goldman Sachs Top 100 Innovators

`Affil.` Stanford AII; U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI); Center on Counterterrorism (CTEC); Bloomberg NEF; Forbes Technology Council; First Round Fast Track; Society for Science & The Public

`Investor` Databricks, Lambda, Replit, Social Impact Capital, Techstars network

I’m a deeply technical, thoughtfully commercial product leader, nerd, and angel investor on a lifelong mission to build software that augments human cognition. 🧠

I currently serve as Head of Foundation Models & Post-Training, Frontier AI at Salesforce (skip level: Marc Benioff). In 2025, Salesforce acquired my agentic optimization company Spindle AI, where I was co-founder & CTO for AI, to power Agentforce. Spindle was backed by Accel, Sequoia, Index, Caffeinated, and diverse Fortune 100 executives.

Acknowledged by OpenAI in its GPT-2 release, I previously co-founded Volley ML, an early language modeling lab funded by Mark Zuckerberg, later serving as its CTO In–Residence at JPMorgan. I also served as President of CIA-backed natural language analytics firm Brainspace, acquired by Reveal in 2021.

When not playing music (or Rummikub, as the case may be), my wife Seda & I are racing to improve 1 billion lives by 2030. So if you’re doing something incredible, please reach out.

CARSON KAHN

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