# Suhail Doshi

> Suhail Doshi is a software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Mixpanel with Tim Trefren in 2009 and served as CEO until 2018. He subsequently founded Mighty, a cloud-browser project, and Playground, which develops AI creative tools. His public writing covers early customer acquisition, management and building startups; his personal website also features a music project.

- **Role:** Founder of Playground; co-founder and former CEO of Mixpanel
- **Organizations:** Mixpanel, Mighty Computing, Playground, Slide
- **Education:** Studied Computer Systems Engineering; left before graduating, Arizona State University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Mixpanel, an event-based product analytics company., Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Consumer Technology in 2013., Co-authored Playground v2.5: Three Insights towards Enhancing Aesthetic Quality in Text-to-Image Generation.

## Career timeline

- **2008** — Interned at Slide after his sophomore year at Arizona State University.
- **2009** — Co-founded Mixpanel with Tim Trefren and joined Y Combinator’s Summer 2009 batch; left university.
- **2018** — Handed the Mixpanel CEO role to Amir Movafaghi in April and became chairman.
- **2019** — Started Mighty, a cloud-based browser project.
- **2022** — Announced the move away from Mighty toward AI creative tools in November.
- **2023** — Discussed Playground’s image editor, model development and $40 million funding in December.
- **2024** — Co-authored the Playground v2.5 paper submitted on February 27.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Mixpanel, an event-based product analytics company.
- Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Consumer Technology in 2013.
- Co-authored Playground v2.5: Three Insights towards Enhancing Aesthetic Quality in Text-to-Image Generation.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — As observed on October 15, 2026, his personal website features a weekly music project and links to tracks including roundandround, we are the night, pressure, halfway and all the way up. This is the observation date; the site does not date the releases.
- **2024-08** — Product Hunt featured Playground’s design app and Playground v3 beta model.
- **2024-05** — Discussed creative expression, computer vision, image editing and open source on The Gradient podcast.

## Links

- Website: https://suhaildoshi.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suhaildoshi/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/Suhail
- YouTube: https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCfJbsckiANeF_8sP-udc1xA

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Last updated: 2026-10-15