Gabriel Petersson
Gabriel Petersson is a Swedish-born software engineer and AI researcher based in San Francisco. He currently serves as co-founder and CEO of Energy, an AI startup building computer-use agents, having previously worked as a research scientist on OpenAI's Sora video generation team and as a software engineer at Midjourney. He is best known for dropping out of high school in Sweden at age 17 to join startups, eventually securing roles at prominent AI companies without formal higher education, and for assisting other Swedish founders seeking to relocate to Silicon Valley.
“This was a high school dropout from Sweden, came to the U.S. with no education, got a job at MidJourney, then became one of the youngest researchers at OpenAI. Every time that there's a Swedish founder that wants to move to Silicon Valley, they want to get in touch with him.”
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