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Sam Trautwein

Co-Founder & CEO, Carbon

New York City

Sam Trautwein was a senior at Stanford studying Computer Science with a concentration in AI. Sam grew up in the Dominican Republic and experienced first hand the consequences of high inflation during the Hipolito presidency. He was in first group of employees and a founding member of the CS team at Plenty, an AI hydroponics company backed by Softbank, Bezos Expeditions and Innovation Endeavors. He ran development of the data pipeline, helped design system architecture, participated in hiring decisions and engaged in market research. Sam has focused on the intersection of system design and tech, concentrating mainly on distributed systems and encryption.

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