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Shawn Dimantha

AI Product Leader & Builder

Building AI products from 0→1 and at billion-user scale. Product @ YouTube/Google. Founder. Investor.

About

AI product leader at YouTube/Google driving ML-powered growth across Shorts, TV, Podcasts, and AI creation tools at billion-user scale. Previously built and launched healthcare products at Verily Life Sciences (Alphabet) and Peterson Center on Healthcare. Founded Auggi (CV/ML for digestive health, acquired by Seed Health) and Enfluence. Co-founded Hydra Ventures ($10M+ AUM) investing in AI and frontier tech.

What I've Built

YouTube 2021 – Present

Shorts

ML-driven growth from 30x to 200B+ daily views

YouTube on TV

#1 most-watched platform on television

Podcasts

#1 podcast platform

AI Creation Tools

AI inspiration & generative video innovations

ML Platform Infra

Serving hundreds of millions of creators

Verily Life Sciences 2019 – 2021

Granular Insurance

Launched stop-loss insurance — Verily's top revenue driver → exit to Elevance Health

OneFifteen

Tech-enabled opioid addiction care. Worked with 2x FDA Commissioner Rob Califf. Fast Company Innovation Award.

Verily Patch

Wearable for fever detection in oncology patients & COVID monitoring

Peterson Center on Healthcare 2016 – 2019

Primary Care Innovation

Built product & engineering teams from scratch to transform primary care practices into high-quality, cost-efficient operations. Demoed to Bill Gates (advisory board member). Founded by Pete Peterson (Blackstone co-founder).

Startups Founded

Auggi (2018 – 2020)

AI for digestive health. Incubated at MIT → acquired by Seed Health

Enfluence (2014 – 2015)

Early computer vision startup — social media images → actionable health data

Education

University of Pennsylvania

BSE Bioengineering

Georgia Tech

MS Computer Science, ML/AI (partially complete)

Stanford

Biodesign Fellowship, CS224G Mentor (LLM applications)

MIT IDEA²

Incubated Auggi

Writing & Talks

Substack Writing

"Superintelligent Corporations", "Agentic Thoughts", "TechBio Idea Maze"

AI-Powered World in 10 Years

Panelist with Leigh Marie Braswell (Kleiner Perkins, fmr. Founders Fund), moderated by Bloomberg's Lizette Chapman

AI x Bio

Talk with Rohan Ganesh at Obvious Ventures on how generative AI advances can help advance drug design and development

AI Rollups Market Map

Market map of the AI rollups landscape

AI Rollups Podcast

AI Rollups 101 with Jon Lemelman

Hackathons

Beacon — AI team for rare disease patients & families. Anthropic's "Built with Opus 4.6 Claude Code" hackathon, 1 of 500 selected from 13,000+ applicants. 1st at AGI House ImageGen — audio to music video generative AI model. 2nd at Scale GenAI — text to protein structure generation.

Web3 Talk

Web3 apps and infra talk with Founders Inc at Web3 Summit in SF

Investing

Co-founded Hydra Ventures ($10M+ AUM) and Metropolis. Investing ahead of a16z, Founders Fund, Lightspeed.

AI Highlights

Prime Intellect w/ Founders Fund AGI Inc Common Sense Machines → acq. Google DeepMind Bittensor Pika w/ Lightspeed Altera w/ a16z MultiOn w/ General Catalyst

DeSci

Molecule VitaDAO HairDAO Bio Protocol Beaker