Greg Kress
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Founder Advocate
San Francisco, California, United States
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Jobs
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Founder AdvocateSupabaseAug 2025 - Current (11 months)White-glove support for Y Combinator startups. Strategic partnerships and program development.- Investment PartnerPioneer FundMar 2025 - Current (1 year 4 months)
- Senior Venture PartnerPioneer FundFeb 2022 - Mar 2025 (3 years 2 months)
- Founder & CEOimagiaJun 2019 - Mar 2025 (5 years 10 months)Computer vision at the speed of light.
- Venture PartnerPioneer FundJul 2018 - Feb 2022 (3 years 8 months)Investing in Y Combinator companies.
- Co-Founder & CEOPearlNov 2016 - Oct 2020 (4 years)A Y Combinator company.
- Adjunct LecturerStanford UniversityJan 2015 - Dec 2025 (11 years)Department of Mechanical Engineering.
- Executive Director, ME310 Design InnovationStanford UniversityApr 2013 - Aug 2013 (5 months)As Executive Director of the ME310 Global Design Innovation program I contributed to curriculum development and coordinated with international partner universities.
- Founder & CEORadicand IncOct 2012 - Current (13 years 9 months)Dedicated to entrepreneurial product development.
- Design Research ConsultantIMVUJun 2011 - Aug 2011 (3 months)Worked with IMVU marketing, data analytics and product development teams. Led a student research team to gain insight into user behavior and recommend product improvements.
- Design Engineering ConsultantLuidia IncMar 2010 - Apr 2011 (1 year 2 months)Luidia R&D including technical proof-of-concept prototypes and new product development.
- Graduate Research AssistantStanford UniversitySep 2009 - Dec 2012 (3 years 4 months)As a graduate researcher at Stanford I developed tools and methods to encourage engineering innovation, studied models for team cognition to predict design performance, and investigated trends in the future of the internet and society.
- Visiting LecturerAalto UniversityAug 2009 - Feb 2010 (7 months)
- Design Engineering InternLuidiaMay 2009 - Aug 2009 (4 months)
- ME310 Course AssistantStanford UniversityAug 2008 - Jun 2009 (11 months)
- Research AssistantUniversity of MichiganAug 2006 - Mar 2007 (8 months)
- DJ & On-Air PersonalityWCBN FMAug 2004 - Mar 2007 (2 years 8 months)
Education
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- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D, Mechanical EngineeringStanford UniversityJan 2009 - Dec 2012 (4 years)
- M.S, Mechanical EngineeringStanford UniversityJan 2007 - Dec 2009 (3 years)
- B.S.E, Engineering Physics (Summa cum Laude)University of MichiganJan 2003 - Dec 2006 (4 years)
Projects (professional or personal)
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- TThe ImaginariumNov 2010 - Jun 2012 (1 year 8 months)The Imaginarium was a prototype multimedia immersion environment, hand-built based on a highly modular design from sustainable materials. The interior of the dome featured full hemispherical digital video projection and surround sound. It could comfortably accommodate 15 people sitting, standing or lying down. No matter what the occupants’ positions, they would experience full-field-of-view video projection.
- AAudi AssistSep 2007 - Jun 2008 (10 months)A complete design cycle, research and development project sponsored by the Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL) of Volkswagen of America, Inc. as part of the Stanford ME310 Global Design & Innovation course. The project spanned nine months of aggressive prototyping, testing and development to create a “smart handbook” for the car of the future. Our solution, “Audi Assist”, combined an array of embedded sensors to track the location of the driver’s hands, as well as contextual awareness of vehicle speed, weather conditions and other parameters to determine an “information flow” for a one-touch help feature. The system, as a whole, was a multimodal information exchange platform that has far-reaching implications for the future of human-machi
Publications
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- The Effects of Team Member Intrinsic Differences on Emergent Team Dynamics and Long-Term Innovative Performance in EnginStanford UniversityNov 2012Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering.
- IHeadspace: the Stanford ImaginariumInternational Conference on Design Creativity ICDC GlasgowSep 2012A brief summary of a creativity pilot study in the Imaginarium multimedia immersion environment.
- ICognition as a Measure of Team DiversityInterdisciplinary Engineering Design Education Conference IEDEC Santa ClaraMar 2012Many innovative teams are formed according to a model of extrinsic diversity; however, there is little support for this approach in prior research. This paper proposes a model for team diversity based instead on intrinsic team member characteristics (cognitive style data), which are much more meaningful for understanding emergent team dynamics and long-term innovative performance.
- IInitial Conditions: The Structure and Composition of Effective Design TeamsInternational Conference on Engineering Design ICED CopenhagenAug 2011Preliminary results from a longitudinal study comparing engineering team member cognitive style data to long-term team dynamics and design outcomes.
- ADesigning for Social Participation in the Virtual UniverseAmerican Society for Engineering Education ASEE VancouverJun 2011Understanding user needs and behavior in an online social context.