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Amir Gilad and the problem of 4,000 dinner guests
The DualBird co-founder saw the coming flood of AI data through a familiar scene: a pot of Bolognese and far too many hungry visitors. His answer drew on years in chip design, a taste for difficult engineering, and a habit of making time for people.
Gilad Tal
Gilad Tal is co-founder and CEO of DualBird, a Boston-based deep tech startup rebuilding the foundation of analytics and AI data infrastructure by running silicon acceleration as cloud-native software. A Technion-trained electrical engineer and physicist with 14 years in ASIC and software development, he previously founded and led TerrainEDA, an EDA startup acquired by Synopsys. At DualBird he and his co-founders use rewritable FPGA hardware to plug into Apache Spark and Iceberg environments, claiming up to 100x faster performance and up to 90% lower cost with no changes to existing workflows.