Ben Turtel

Founder & Investor. Ex-Google SWE & Area120 CTO. I’m currently the founder & CEO of Lightning Rod Labs, where we’re training AI to predict the future. Previously I founded Kazm Talk, a video conversation platform for meaningful group discourse, acquired by Harvard University and relaunched as Frankly. As part of Google’s Area 120 I founded Rivet, an AI-powered reading app for kids. Before that I was a software engineer working on applied machine learning at Google, and studied Scientific Computing at NYU. I advise startups through The Garage (Northwestern), StartX (Stanford) and the Cointelegraph Accelerator. substack