# Charlie Holtz

> Charlie Holtz is the co-founder and CEO of Conductor, a San Francisco software company building interfaces for managing AI coding agents. He previously worked in quantitative finance at Point72 and built AI applications at Replicate. His public projects include ShlinkedIn, StickerBaker, and an AI wildlife narrator; he studied cognitive neuroscience at Brown, where he met co-founder Jackson de Campos.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Conductor
- **Organizations:** Conductor, Replicate, Point72, Brown University
- **From:** London, United Kingdom
- **Education:** Cognitive Neuroscience, with honors, Brown University
- **Known for:** Built ShlinkedIn, which attracted thousands of members and reached the top of Hacker News., His 2023 AI narrator demo reached nearly four million views by his December 2023 account., Built StickerBaker, whose users had generated more than 100,000 stickers according to his personal blog.

## Career timeline

- **2018** — Received honors in cognitive neuroscience at Brown University.
- **2020** — Started ShlinkedIn in March to learn Elixir and parody corporate social networking.
- **2023** — Worked as Hacker in Residence at Replicate; presented Building AI Apps with Elixir at ElixirConf.
- **2023** — Published the narrator demo in November, combining webcam images, AI-generated commentary, and a cloned voice.
- **2024** — Co-founded the company with Jackson de Campos in summer 2024; participated in Y Combinator Summer 2024. The company previously launched the Melty code editor.
- **2025** — Built Conductor in summer 2025 to manage parallel coding agents.
- **2026** — Charlie and Jackson announced a $22 million Series A on March 30.

## Achievements

- Built ShlinkedIn, which attracted thousands of members and reached the top of Hacker News.
- His 2023 AI narrator demo reached nearly four million views by his December 2023 account.
- Built StickerBaker, whose users had generated more than 100,000 stickers according to his personal blog.
- Co-founded Conductor, which announced a $22 million Series A in March 2026.
- Received honors in cognitive neuroscience at Brown in May 2018.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Conductor 0.92.0, dated October 23, introduced iPhone remote control of local Mac workspaces.
- **2026-10** — Conductor 0.90.0, dated October 2, launched an iOS app for chatting with agents and merging pull requests in cloud workspaces.
- **2026-03** — Charlie and Jackson announced a $22 million Series A from Spark and Matrix, with additional investors including Y Combinator and founders of Notion and Linear.

## Links

- Website: https://www.charlieholtz.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlieholtz
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/charlieholtz
- GitHub: https://github.com/cbh123

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