# Gordon Hirsch Wilson

> Gordon Hirsch Wilson is the co-founder and founding CEO of Rain AI, the brain-inspired computing company that emerged from the University of Florida in 2017. He led Rain for six years before announcing his transition to executive advisor in 2023. A former political campaign organizer who studied mathematics and statistics, he describes his work as storytelling and translation across technical disciplines. He later announced work as Allstora’s chief strategy officer, and HalfCourt currently lists him as a venture partner.

- **Role:** Venture Partner at HalfCourt; Co-founder and founding CEO of Rain AI
- **Organizations:** Rain AI, HalfCourt, Allstora, Equality Florida, UF Data Science and Informatics, Y Combinator
- **Education:** B.S., Statistics and Mathematics, University of Florida, Studies in public policy and political science; degree not established, Duke University, Summer 2018 accelerator program, Y Combinator
- **Known for:** Co-founded Rain AI and served as its founding CEO for six years., Led Rain through Y Combinator Summer 2018 and its $25 million Series A announcement in 2022., Listed on the ICONS 2022 steering committee.

## Career timeline

- **2010** — Worked on a congressional campaign; describes managing its largest field office.
- **2012** — Worked on the team that helped elect Florida’s first openly LGBT state representative.
- **2015-2017** — Studied statistics and mathematics at the University of Florida and led its data science student organization.
- **2017** — Co-founded Rain with Jack Kendall and Juan Claudio Nino.
- **2018** — Rain participated in Y Combinator’s Summer batch.
- **2021** — Rain taped out a working prototype, according to its February 2022 announcement.
- **2022** — Rain announced a $25 million Series A.
- **2023** — Stepped down as Rain CEO and announced a transition to executive advisor.
- **2024** — Announced joining Allstora as chief strategy officer, starting that January.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Rain AI and served as its founding CEO for six years.
- Led Rain through Y Combinator Summer 2018 and its $25 million Series A announcement in 2022.
- Listed on the ICONS 2022 steering committee.
- National Merit Scholar, May 2009, as listed on LinkedIn.

## Latest updates

- **2024-11** — Shared the recording of his final Rain CEO presentation, given at Ai4 on August 8, 2023.
- **2024-10** — Publicly described Rain’s shift from its original analog plan to digital SRAM-based compute-in-memory and retained frontier research.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gordonhirschwilson/

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