# Dan Adler

> Dan Adler is the CEO of Sourcegraph, the code intelligence platform powering search and AI across 54 billion lines of code for companies like Uber, Stripe, and Atlassian. A Rice computer science graduate and Stanford MBA, Adler joined Sourcegraph in 2016 as an early employee - writing infrastructure code, selling the first contracts, and building every major business function from scratch - before being elevated to CEO in December 2025 when co-founder Quinn Slack spun out Amp Inc. He has shepherded the company from zero revenue to $50M ARR and a $2.6B valuation, and believes agentic AI will only amplify the need for enterprise-grade code context.

- **Role:** CEO at Sourcegraph
- **Organizations:** Sourcegraph, Bain & Company, Vector Capital, Alpha Vector Capital Limited, Rice University, Stanford Graduate School of Business
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S. Computer Science, Rice University, MBA (Arjay Miller Scholar), Stanford University Graduate School of Business
- **Known for:** Elevated to CEO of Sourcegraph in December 2025, Helped grow Sourcegraph from zero revenue to $50M ARR and $2.6B valuation, Wrote Sourcegraph's original data infrastructure as an early employee

## Career timeline

- **2003-2007** — Computer Science degree at Rice University
- **2007-2011** — Associate Consultant and Consultant at Bain & Company
- **2011-2013** — Investment Associate at Vector Capital / Alpha Vector Capital
- **2013-2015** — MBA at Stanford GSB; honored as Arjay Miller Scholar
- **2015-2016** — Founded and wound down Cells Software (spreadsheet data labeling startup)
- **2016** — Joined Sourcegraph as early employee; wrote original data infrastructure and sold first contracts
- **2016-2025** — Held VP of Business, CFO, and infrastructure engineering roles; built every major business function at Sourcegraph
- **2021** — Sourcegraph raises $125M Series D at $2.6B valuation; ARR crosses $10M
- **2025** — Sourcegraph ARR reaches $50M; 800,000+ developers on platform
- **2025-12-02** — Elevated to CEO of Sourcegraph as co-founder Quinn Slack departs to lead Amp Inc. spinout

## Achievements

- Elevated to CEO of Sourcegraph in December 2025
- Helped grow Sourcegraph from zero revenue to $50M ARR and $2.6B valuation
- Wrote Sourcegraph's original data infrastructure as an early employee
- Personally sold most of Sourcegraph's first customer contracts
- 100+ production commits to the Sourcegraph codebase across a decade
- Served simultaneously as CFO and infrastructure engineer
- Built Sourcegraph's people ops, finance, legal, business ops, and tech ops functions from scratch
- Co-inventor on U.S. Patent No. 9,946,702 (2018)
- Honored as Arjay Miller Scholar at Stanford GSB
- Oversaw growth to 800,000+ developers and customers including Uber, Stripe, Atlassian, Plaid, Reddit

## Latest updates

- **2025-12** — Elevated to CEO of Sourcegraph following Quinn Slack's departure to lead Amp Inc. spinout
- **2025-12** — Sourcegraph and Amp Inc. became independent companies with separate leadership, boards, and distribution strategies
- **2025** — Sourcegraph crossed $50M ARR milestone with 800,000+ developers on platform
- **2025** — Published 'A note from Dan' on Sourcegraph blog outlining vision for code intelligence in the AI agent era

## Links

- Website: https://sourcegraph.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielnealadler/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/DanielNealAdler
- GitHub: https://github.com/dadlerj
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/sourcegraph

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Last updated: 2026-05-27