Kevin Gibbs

Kevin Gibbs is co-founder and CEO of Terraton, a San Francisco climate-tech startup building a 'business-in-a-box' franchise model for biochar carbon removal. Before climate, he built two pieces of internet plumbing most people use without knowing his name: Google Suggest (search autocomplete) and Google App Engine. He went on to co-found Quip with Bret Taylor, sold it to Salesforce in 2016 for roughly $750M, and ran it to north of $100M ARR. Terraton raised an $11.5M seed in August 2025 led by Lowercarbon and Gigascale.