Mike Knoop

Last updated Jul. 2, 2024

• Co-founder ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress
• Co-founder Zapier – automation for everyone
  • Head of AI from 2022 to 2024
  • President / Chief Product Officer from 2012 to 2022
  • Built: AI Bots, AI Actions, Zaps, Tables & Interfaces, Zappy
• Invested: Braintrust, Limitless AI, Julius AI, Cognition AI, Cartesia AI, After Thought AI
• Grew up in St. Louis, now SF Bay Area
• Background in engineering, math, research, and programming
• Email me: mikeknoop@gmail.com
• Twitter: @mikeknoop

Interviews

• 2024: Why AGI needs new ideas, ARC Prize launch reactions (sequoia podcast)
• 2024: Announcing ARC Prize (dwarkesh podcast)
• 2024: Why open source AI progress matters (no priors podcast)
• 2023: Zapier's AI-powered future (sacra)
• 2023: Category creation, APIs, & AI architecture (this week in startups)
• 2023: How Zapier employees use AI (greg kamradt)
• 2022: Founder's guide to building a $5B company w/ little funding (traction conf)
• 2019: Running remote-first product and design teams (yc podcast)

Archive

• 2023: Co-founder mindset
• 2022: New product development cheatsheet
• 2019: Make 8BitDo controllers work with iOS
• 2016: Survey of Credit Card Forms
• 2011: Pioneer DVR harddrive recovery tools
• 2011: KnoopVsZombies — an HvZ engine
• 2007: Ticalc.org author profile, SafeGuard program