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Shota Gvinepadze

Shota Gvinepadze

AI/ML computer scientist, educator, entrepreneur, and musician

Georgia
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Joined January 2025
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Shota Gvinepadze is an accomplished AI/ML computer scientist with three decades of coding experience. He has a strong academic background, having graduated summa cum laude and earned two bronze medals in the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) and International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). a16z+1
A serial entrepreneur, Shota has founded multiple companies, some of which have achieved millions of users, and is currently the CTO of Blank, a company that emphasizes speed, polished experiences, and the latest AI models. a16z
Shota is deeply committed to education, contributing to the establishment of a top Computer Science program in Georgia and serving on the Tbilisi Free School board. He has been recognized with a Presidential Medal of Honor for his outstanding contributions to education and has given a TEDx talk on the importance of learning to code. a16z+1

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Why shall we start learning coding straight away?

October 1, 2017

TEDxTbilisi talk about the past, present, and future of coding.

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Shota Gvinepadze is a songwriter and keyboardist for the Georgian alternative/new progressive rock band "The Mins". wikipedia