# Pamela Vagata

> Pamela Vagata is the managing partner and co-founder of Pebblebed, an early-stage venture firm for technical founders. Before investing, she built large-scale systems: she worked at Microsoft, created Facebook's FBLearner Flow machine-learning platform, joined OpenAI as a founding member, and led AI work at Stripe. Her career joins two usually separate crafts - building the infrastructure behind machine intelligence and choosing the founders who may build its next layer.

- **Role:** Managing Partner and Co-founder at Pebblebed
- **Organizations:** Pebblebed, Stripe, OpenAI, Facebook, Microsoft, University of Washington
- **Education:** Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Washington
- **Known for:** Created FBLearner Flow, Facebook's production machine-learning platform., FBLearner Flow had trained more than one million models and served more than six million predictions per second by May 2016., Joined OpenAI as one of the founding research engineers and scientists announced in December 2015.

## Career timeline

- **2008** — Worked as a software development engineer intern at Microsoft.
- **2009-2012** — Worked as a software development engineer at Microsoft after graduating from the University of Washington.
- **2012-2016** — Worked at Facebook on data and AI infrastructure; created FBLearner Flow, Facebook's production machine-learning platform.
- **2015** — Named by OpenAI as one of its founding research engineers and scientists.
- **2016-2019** — Worked at Stripe and served as AI tech lead, focusing on deep-learning models including fraud detection.
- **2022** — Pebblebed's first fund filed with the SEC; the San Francisco firm developed its builder-focused community and investment model.
- **2026** — Continues as Pebblebed's managing partner and publishes essays on agent infrastructure and the future of software pricing.

## Achievements

- Created FBLearner Flow, Facebook's production machine-learning platform.
- FBLearner Flow had trained more than one million models and served more than six million predictions per second by May 2016.
- Joined OpenAI as one of the founding research engineers and scientists announced in December 2015.
- Led AI work at Stripe and presented evidence that an end-to-end deep-learning fraud model outperformed a feature-engineered model in performance and maintenance effort.
- Co-founded Pebblebed, an early-stage venture firm that leads investments in technically rigorous companies.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Pamela Vagata was listed as an executive officer in Pebblebed Fund III's SEC Form D filing for a $200 million offering.
- **2026-03** — Published 'The End of Per-seat SaaS,' arguing that autonomous agents will push software pricing toward work, outcomes, or coordination rather than human seats.
- **2026-03** — Published 'The Internet Will Have More Agents Than Humans,' outlining infrastructure needs for persistent autonomous agents.

## Links

- Website: https://vagata.space
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamela-vagata-8396074
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/pam_vagata
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_6TWcp-fo8

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Last updated: 2026-09-26