# Edo Liberty

> Edo Liberty is Pinecone’s founder, former CEO and a board member. A computer scientist trained at Tel Aviv University and Yale, he led research at Yahoo and AWS before founding Pinecone in 2019. His work spans streaming algorithms, vector search and long-term memory for AI. After becoming chief scientist in September 2025, he stepped back from day-to-day duties in August 2026 while remaining a shareholder and board member.

- **Role:** Founder and board member at Pinecone
- **Organizations:** Pinecone, Amazon Web Services, Yahoo, Yale University, Tel Aviv University, Columbia University, Princeton University
- **Education:** B.Sc. in Physics and Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Ph.D. in Computer Science, Yale University
- **Known for:** Founded Pinecone in 2019 and led it as CEO for six years., Coauthored the KLL streaming quantile algorithm with Zohar Karnin and Kevin Lang., Introduced Frequent Directions in the KDD 2013 best-paper-winning Simple and Deterministic Matrix Sketching.

## Career timeline

- **2004** — Moved to the United States for doctoral study at Yale.
- **2009** — Joined Yahoo’s research center in Israel after an invitation from Yoelle Maarek; later led its New York research lab.
- **2013** — Won a KDD best paper award for Simple and Deterministic Matrix Sketching.
- **2016-2019** — Worked at AWS, ultimately as Director of Research and Head of Amazon AI Labs; contributed to SageMaker algorithms and infrastructure.
- **2019** — Founded Pinecone.
- **2021** — Pinecone introduced its vector database publicly.
- **2023** — Pinecone announced a $100 million Series B at a $750 million valuation; Liberty delivered a TEDAI talk about long-term AI memory.
- **2025-09** — Handed the CEO role to Ash Ashutosh and became chief scientist.
- **2026-08** — Stepped back from day-to-day responsibilities, remaining a Pinecone shareholder and board member.
- **2026-09** — Coauthored the VQ-bench announcement with Ashwin Padaki and Amir Ingber.

## Achievements

- Founded Pinecone in 2019 and led it as CEO for six years.
- Coauthored the KLL streaming quantile algorithm with Zohar Karnin and Kevin Lang.
- Introduced Frequent Directions in the KDD 2013 best-paper-winning Simple and Deterministic Matrix Sketching.
- Research awards include SODA 2011, KDD 2013 and PODS 2021 best paper awards and a 2022 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight.
- Contributed to the algorithms and distributed systems behind Amazon SageMaker.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Coauthored VQ-bench: a Composable Vector Quantization Framework, published September 17, with Ashwin Padaki and Amir Ingber.
- **2026-08** — On August 26, CEO Ash Ashutosh announced Liberty was stepping back from day-to-day Pinecone responsibilities, remaining a shareholder and board member.
- **2025-09** — Became chief scientist after Ash Ashutosh succeeded him as CEO on September 8.

## Links

- Website: https://edoliberty.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edo-liberty-4380164/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/EdoLiberty
- GitHub: https://github.com/edoliberty

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Last updated: 2026-10-22