Adam Judelson

Founder

Los Angeles, California, United States20 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20 years in emerging tech leadership.
Founder of two innovative ventures.
Expert in product strategy and development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a GovTech and Emerging Tech expert with a strong focus on product leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product StrategyProduct Management

Other Skills

Product DevelopmentProduct MarketingStrategyEmerging Technologies

About

20 years in emerging tech — ex-Head of Product at Palantir, now founder of two ventures. At Common Sense, we’re building modern agentic AI systems for local government — 100x increases in productivity across critical workflows that simplify civil service and delight citizens. At First Principles, we help emerging tech companies generate massive value, ship faster, align teams, and unlock product-market fit or hypergrowth — through fractional product leadership and expert product coaching. Whether it serves 10,000 users or 10 million residents, the system has to work — and keep working. Sound like I can help you? Get in touch: adam@firstprinciples.la or adam@commonsensetech.ai

Experience

20 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs

Average Tenure

4 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Common sense

Founder & CEO

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr

Common Sense is a venture-backed company helping local government modernize at 100x the pace. We build rapidly responsive, composable systems, and we’re taking an AI and AI-agent first approach to fixing the workflows, tools, and invisible infrastructure that counties & cities depend on every day.

Techstars

All Star Lead Mentor

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

I serve as a Lead and All-Star Mentor at Techstars LA, working closely with founders across space, health, and core cohorts. All-Star status is awarded to the top 1% of mentors globally — selected from a pool of thousands.

First principles catalyst

Founder & Chairman

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

First Principles is a product agency that sources, vets, and grooms expert product talent. Specifically for the emerging tech market.
We have 2 core solutions.
(1) Product Coaching Engagements where an industry-leading product expert coaches your CEO, product or engineering Executive, or product managers.
(2) Fractional Product Engagements where we source a CPO or product manager who will be placed in your company for 6 to 12 months to fill a gap, open a new market, train a team, or solve a critical challenge.
We also publish Emergent, a newsletter and podcast exploring the future of product, talent, and innovation at the edge of tech.

Product StrategyProduct DevelopmentProduct Management

Meprism

President/COO

Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Reclaiming consumer data from big tech companies.

Slingshot aerospace

VP of Product

Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

A Fast Company Top 50 Most Innovative Company
Slingshot Aerospace delivers a situational intelligence platform that applies advanced analytics, computer vision, and collaboration tools to earth and space data, empowering customers with clarity in complex environments.