Lukas Biewald (born 1981 in Massachusetts) is the CEO and co-founder of Weights & Biases.

Lukas Biewald
Biewald speaking at PopTech 2011
Born1981 (age 42–43)
Alma materStanford University

In 2010, Inc. Magazine included Biewald and Van Pelt on its list of the Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30.[1] Biewald and Van Pelt launched CrowdFlower as a product of Dolores Labs at TechCrunch50[2] in 2009, where the company placed as a finalist. Before Weights & Biases, Lukas was the co-founder and CEO of Figure Eight Inc. (formerly CrowdFlower) which he co-founded in December 2007 with Chris Van Pelt.[3] In 2019, Biewald sold Figure Eight to Appen for 300 million dollars.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Lagorio, Christine (19 July 2010). "Lukas Biewald and Chris Van Pelt, Founders of Crowdflower". Inc. Magazine. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
  2. ^ "The TechCrunch50 Finalists 2009". TechCrunch. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
  3. ^ Barret, Victoria (11 March 2009). "Dolores Labs Vets Web Sites On The Cheap". Forbes. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
  4. ^ Ha, Anthony. "Appen acquires Figure Eight for up to $300M, bringing two data annotation companies together".