David Holz
David Holz is the founder and CEO of Midjourney, an independent AI research lab and image generation service launched in 2021. He previously co-founded Leap Motion, a hand-tracking and gestural interface hardware company, where he served as CTO for approximately 12 years before departing to start Midjourney. Midjourney is known for its AI image and video generation tools hosted primarily on Discord, and operates without venture capital funding, using its revenue to support research and development across multiple projects.
“Midjourney Medical — their first new hardware product called Midjourney Scanner, described as the first entirely new full-body medical imaging method in 50 years. [01:35:16]”
Source→“"David is actually a very imaginative person. Midjourney has never raised from VCs — David doesn't want investor control. He used Midjourney's image generation revenue to fund a team of about 50 people doing various hardware projects for over a year." [01:36:15]”
Source→“"David previously worked at NASA doing lidar-related work, then founded a company called Leap Motion doing gesture recognition, which was later acquired by a competitor." [01:36:44]”
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