Unreasonable Fellows
Sean Blagsvedt
CEO, Gooey.AI. Previously Babajob.com, Dara.network, Microsoft Research, White House.
Sean is an Unreasonable Fellow. Sean was part of Unreasonable GOALS 2017.
Sean is the CEO of Gooey.AI, an community AI platform with 250k users and discoverable AI recipes powered by the best of open source and private AI. Gooey.AI’s work on Farmer.CHAT was featured at the 2023 UN General Assembly Science Panel Their clients include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, DigitalGreen, Fandom.com, Opportunity.org, GIZ and PeoplePlus.AI.
Previously, he co-founded Dara.network, the communication platform for Global South changemakers and institutions that support them. In 2007, Sean founded Babajob.com, India's largest digital job marketplace for the aspiring labor, which had over 8.5 million users, facilitated over 500,000 hires and was acquired in 2017. Sean moved to Bangalore in 2004 as the 3rd member of Microsoft Research India and lives now in Seattle with Archana Prasad and their son, Vyom.
Sean is a TED Fellow, GES Entrepreneur, Unreasonable Goals Entrepreneur and recipient of the Namma Bengaluru award for Best Foreign Resident. He holds 29 patents and degrees in Computer Science and Public Policy from Brown University.