# Quinn Slack

> Quinn Slack is CEO and Member of Technical Staff at Amp, co-founder and former CEO of Sourcegraph, and a board member of Amp, Sourcegraph, and Hack Club. A Stanford computer science graduate, he previously co-founded Blend and worked at Palantir and Bleacher Report. His work centres on making programming and code understanding more accessible.

- **Role:** CEO and Member of Technical Staff at Amp
- **Organizations:** Amp, Sourcegraph, Hack Club, Blend, Palantir Technologies, Bleacher Report
- **Education:** BS in Computer Science, Stanford University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Sourcegraph and led it through its code-search development and enterprise expansion., Co-founded Blend., Co-authored RFC 8548: Cryptographic Protection of TCP Streams (tcpcrypt).

## Career timeline

- **1997** — Began coding at age nine; built a $10 website for his brother’s Little League team.
- **2007** — Worked as Bleacher Report’s first employee and developer after high school.
- **2011** — Graduated from Stanford with a BS in Computer Science; subsequently worked at Palantir.
- **2012** — Co-founded Blend before Sourcegraph.
- **2013** — Co-founded Sourcegraph with Beyang Liu; spoke at Berkeley Entrepreneurship Week on November 18.
- **2019** — Co-authored RFC 8548, the experimental tcpcrypt protocol specification.
- **2021** — Sourcegraph announced a $125 million Series D at a $2.625 billion valuation.
- **2025** — On December 2, Sourcegraph and Amp announced their separation; Dan Adler became Sourcegraph CEO while Slack and Liu founded the independent Amp business.
- **2026** — Serves as CEO and Member of Technical Staff at Amp and remains on the boards of Amp, Sourcegraph, and Hack Club.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Sourcegraph and led it through its code-search development and enterprise expansion.
- Co-founded Blend.
- Co-authored RFC 8548: Cryptographic Protection of TCP Streams (tcpcrypt).
- Led Sourcegraph when it announced its $125 million Series D in July 2021.
- Co-founded the independent Amp business.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — His Amp workflow profile, updated September 7, says he dictates 90% of prompts, works mainly through web and phone, and no longer uses an editor.
- **2026-06** — Published Freedom of Intelligence on June 29, arguing against government restrictions on access to AI models.
- **2025-12** — Sourcegraph and Amp announced independent companies; Slack remained on Sourcegraph’s board and moved to lead Amp.

## Links

- Website: https://slack.org/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/quinnslack/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/sqs
- GitHub: https://github.com/sqs
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/sqs7.bsky.social

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