Pebblebed

The page argues that company history is shaped by management and that work outside people’s zones of genius should be delegated to agents where possible or made delegable.

Insights on technology, venture capital, and building companies from the Pebblebed team.

The company backed Build to construct the digital substrate for the built world, following a seed conversation about shipping hundreds of thousands of buildings and compressing weeks of technical due diligence into hours.

The page argues that “intelligence” is not a technical term and that computational complexity can shed light on AI capabilities. It says that imprecise use of terms such as “intelligence,” “AGI,” and “ASI” leads to misunderstanding.

Pebblebed offers team roles and lists open positions at its portfolio companies.

Keith Adams is a Managing Partner and co-founder of Pebblebed, and one of the most decorated systems engineers of his generation. His career runs from the deepest layers of computer systems through frontier AI research and internet-scale product architecture.

Kevin Liu is on Pebblebed’s investment team, focusing on AI and frontier tech. Before joining, he contributed to investments in Wiz, Databricks, KREA, Infleqtion, LiveKit, Clay, CelerData, and Numeral, and supported emerging managers.

Michael Thomas is a Venture Partner at Pebblebed and one of the most accomplished talent executives in the AI industry. He has spent his career building the teams behind some of the most ambitious technical organizations ever assembled.

Nicole Levin leads community at Pebblebed, and is the architect of what the firm calls the Pebbleverse — the dense network of founders, researchers, operators, and builders that makes Pebblebed more than a capital provider.

Pebblebed is a seed-stage venture firm for technical founders and backs people solving technically rigorous problems.