Adrian Scott, Ph.D.

About

I engineer A.I.-enabled technology and help startups grow. I was a board member of Legitmix and helped them turn around sales from flat to major growth. I have a history of helping companies architect, build and ship software and Internet services. I am particularly interested in metrics-driven feedback loops, especially around behavior design, habit creation, and LLM evals.

I founded and built Coderbuddy, which started out as a PAAS (platform as a service) enabling web-based development, testing and deployment of software applications to the cloud. I now have a small team that works directly on helping a small, select number of startups and major technology companies build out technology and grow their metrics.

I founded Ryze, a leading business networking service which pioneered the social networking boom starting in 2001, heavily influencing Friendster, which in turn influenced Facebook.

In the past, I built Internet technology for companies including Charles Schwab & Co., Bank of America, Hewlett-Packard, Symantec and several startups. I later co-founded a startup called Flycode, which was formerly known as AppleSoup. I recruited most of the team and helped raise the nearly $4 million in funding.

I was a founding investor in Napster, angel investor in Giganet and BuyDirect.com (both successfully sold to publicly-traded companies), and advisor to Starmine, which was sold to Thomson Reuters. Prior to that I was a Cadet Colonel in the Civil Air Patrol, U.S. Air Force Auxiliary, at age 17, and earned a Math Ph.D. in nonlinear optimization from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at age 20.

Best wishes,
Adrian