Dec 2025 – Present · 5 mos

Dec 2025 – Present · 5 mos

Nov 2025 – Present · 6 mos

Nov 2025 – Present · 6 mos

Nov 2025 – Present · 6 mos

Nov 2025 – Present · 6 mos

Nov 2025 – Present · 6 mos

Aug 2025 – Present · 9 mos

Jul 2025 – Present · 10 mos

May 2025 – Present · 1 yr

• Top 10's mission is to end loneliness. It can only be joined if you are in somebody's Top 10 list. Join our waitlist at http://top10datingapp.com/ and find your soulmate, great friends and colleagues worth talking with!

May 2025 – Present · 1 yr

May 2025 – Present · 1 yr

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

• Investor in Plaid, the financial connector company.

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Mar 2024 – May 2024 · 2 mos

• Provided consulting to Aigo.AI, working toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Nov 2023 – Nov 2023 · 0 mo · Tempe, Arizona, United States · On-site

• Delivered the keynote speech at the ESRA annual meeting, on AI and digital signatures.

Aug 2023 – Aug 2023 · 0 mo · Omaha, Nebraska, United States · On-site

• Delivered the keynote speech at the PRIA Annual Conference, covering AI, drones, the history of property recording, entrepreneurship and more.

Jan 2023 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · Altadena, California, United States · On-site

• The lesser half of the songwriting duo, Jack & Hill.
• Spend a little time is out on Spotify, Apple Music and all major platforms. Find it at https://fanlink.to/iE2D?fbclid=PAAaY6SRGATSLRWjrivnjnYo_-MPAs7pOgUn8J0eVCOeXyGMt5zIrTcTaXoqc_aem_AZdi4mA5EKcIIxJ7_Lh69gXiTGuV0TB0JUqSJiVCIqik9HrStZbd2Ei5I3H13uNGkeE

Nov 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 6 mos · Altadena, California, United States

• The IFA's mission is to help founders and entrepreneurs succeed in creating, growing and maintaining successful companies.
• Founding members include founders from Silicon Valley and SoCal, a VC and a Silicon Valley law firm.
• Our first three goals are:
• 1. Create a set of founding and financing documents to provide a founder- and company-friendly alternative to the VC-friendly ones by the NVCA.
• 2. Create a resource to spread knowledge among founders of the many pitfalls to beware in terms of corporate structure, financing, etc.
• 3. Create a rider/pledge that founder-friendly VCs and PE firms can adopt to walk the talk and differentiate themselves from the kind of investors who are founder-friendly only in words.
• Inquire to learn more and/or to support our mission.

Mar 2021 – Mar 2021 · 0 mo

Feb 2021 – Feb 2023 · 2 yrs

• Advised Clout and Subscape on technology.

Nov 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 6 mos · Altadena, California, United States

• Drisit does for vision what the telephone did for speech. We allow our clients to see anywhere from anywhere else with the world's most intuitive drone teleoperations and livestreaming platform.
• Reimagining Being There.
• Drisit has been selected by the 5G Open Innovation Lab, funded by Microsoft, Intel, T-Mobile, Accenture, Nokia, Ericsson and others, as one of the most exciting companies in the 5G and edge computing space.
• dris·it
• /ˈdrizit/
• verb
• to visit remotely by drone (and phone)
• Introducing the Drisit Virtual Presence Platform. Be anywhere.
• Our rapidly growing roster of partners includes T-Mobile and Los Angeles County.

Mar 2020 – Dec 2020 · 9 mos

• In collaboration with distinguished scientists including a mathematician, a biological chemist, a biomedical engineer, an astronomer and an electrical engineer at Caltech, UCSD, U Penn and Vanderbilt University and the World Health Organization, carried out ground-breaking COVID-19 research. Was the first to show the dramatic impact of sunlight and one of the first to show the impact of vitamin D on COVID 19, one of the treatments that was eventually used to treat President Trump. Was the first to suggest the economy should move outdoors during the pandemic. Preprints can be found at https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.13.20130484v1 & https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=4088303 .
• Open letter by hundreds of scientists and physicians citing the research at https://vitamindforall.org/letter.html

Jan 2007 – Present · 19 yrs 4 mos

• ab|inventio, the Invention Factory, was named one of the most Innovative Companies in North America by the International Business Awards. We invent and develop our own products, and help other companies with their innovation needs. We specialize in complex algorithmic software problems. ab|inventio has spun off QLess, Whozat, Drisit and Lawbotics.AI, and is currently working on a new AI dating app, Top 10.

Sep 2019 – May 2020 · 8 mos

Jun 2019 – Jun 2021 · 2 yrs

• Mentor to Austrian young entrepreneurs.

Jan 2010 – Mar 2012 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Jan 2009 – Sep 2020 · 11 yrs 8 mos

• Board providing strategic Information Science and Technology guidance to the California Institute of Technology. The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has been ranked the world's best university according to the London-based Times Higher Education survey for the last five consecutive years. Other Board members include Sabeer Bhatia (founder of Hotmail), Dr. Carver Mead (father of VLSI), and Dr. Philip Neches (founder of Teradata), among other luminaries.

Feb 2007 – Oct 2021 · 14 yrs 8 mos

• In my role as the company's largest Shareholder through its last day and holder of a majority of the class of stock that makes up the majority of the company's shares, I was responsible for helping to elect the Board of Directors, to which I elected an Internet CEO who has been funded by both Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, a former CMO of IBM & Xerox and a former CEO who led MS Office's transition to SaaS. I looked out for all shareholders, employees, customers and users, helped keep the Board of Directors accountable to the shareholders, look out for the truth, and helped drive the company's long-term vision. I also spread the word about QLess, and was involved in financing, corp dev and bus dev opportunities until the company's sale.
• As a Director of the Board, I helped to keep the CEO accountable and help set strategic direction for the company.
• I also personally secured all of the highest bids during the process to sell the company and looked out for the interests of all shareholders throughout the process, personally negotiating an exit that provided a 279% ROI to the company ‘s first investor and value 10x higher than that to the company at large.
• QLess saved hundreds of millions of waits more time of waiting than all of recorded history, started an industry and was recognized as the Best Computer Services Company in America six consecutive years, was rated 4.9/5 in the iOS app store at the time of the company's sale, and was being used in thousands of locations for over 500 clients including marquee clients such as Office Depot, Kaiser Permanente, the US Air Force, the US Navy, the Pentagon, the US Capitol, NYU, the University of California, the cities of SF, LA, Cupertino, Beverly Hills, Philadelphia, Orange County and Clark County.

Feb 2007 – Aug 2020 · 13 yrs 6 mos

• As Chairman, I worked closely with our able sales leadership to reposition our messaging to address the needs of a post-COVID-19 world, leading to 333% quarterly bookings growth and beyond. I also worked closely with the technical team to dramatically improve the performance of our algorithms in support of our clients' goals. I also supported management in its financing efforts, and personally brought the company 100% of its financing offers, for 8 figures of financing opportunities. I provided numerous sales and business development opportunities to the company. I led the board, ensuring accountability, oversight and working for governance best practices. Finally, I recruited two directors to join our board, nominated one of them to succeed me, and finally achieved for myself the goal I gave QLess when I started: to create time.

Feb 2007 – Jun 2019 · 12 yrs 4 mos

• The QLess vision is a world without lines. We create time & extend enjoyable lifespan.
• Best Computer/Consumer Services Company, American Business Awards, '13, '14, '15, '16, '17 & '18.
• Best Computer Services Company, International Business Awards, '15, '16, '18, '19.
• Best Place to Work, LABJ '17.
• IT Executive of the Year, International Business Awards, '13.
• Best Business Services Company Under 100 Employees at a time when we had 0 full-time employees, American Business Awards, '10.
• QLess eliminates waiting in line offline and on hold by letting people join a mobile queue from their phone & get notified on their cell phones when their turn approaches, returning to its rightful owners the two years the average person spends waiting in line. We also revolutionized appointments with FlexAppointments that update bidirectionally in real-time as schedules change, and integrate seamlessly with QLess waitlists.
• For government, education, retail, hospitality, healthcare, entertainment and industry establishments, QLess increases profits by up to 50%, enables record-breaking throughput, reduces no-shows and walk-aways, personalizes service, empowers mobile marketing with industry-leading opt-in rates, reduces menial tasks, collects business intelligence and increases customer satisfaction by up to 113%.
• QLess has saved thousands of years for more than 150 million waits in 6 continents, as featured in the WSJ, The New York Times, the BBC, Mashable, TechCrunch, NBC, Fox News & elsewhere.
• QLess is available at thousands of locations including Walmart, Office Depot, Vodafone, Michigan DOS, NYU, UC Berkeley, NYU, Kaiser Permanente, DP World & other forward-looking customer-centric establishments.
• Grew QLess by a median 45% per yr for a total valuation growth of 4000% and share price growth of 20x.
• Named a major trend by the “Father of Invention” & “Dean of Futurists”.
• Raised approx. $20M in equity and debt for QLess. Responsible for QLess' entire global IP portfolio.

Dec 2006 – Dec 2010 · 4 yrs

• Whozat? is a one-stop-shop that allows users to find other people in social networks, blogs, photo and video sites and on the WWW.
• Whozat? was recognized by the prestigious TechCrunch40 competition among the 100 hottest new start-ups in the world. Whozat also tops the Top 10 list of search engines in stealth or Beta at AltSearchEngines. In a blind study of the relevance of search results for ordinary people, Whozat? beat every other search engine tested, including Google, Yahoo, Ask, and all people search engines tested, by a large margin. For a list of ordinary people compiled by a third party, Whozat? beat every other search engine, yielding the most relevant results, as evaluated by the searcher, almost three times as often as all generic search engines and more than five times as often as any other people search engine.
• Prof. Harry Lewis, endowed chair in CS at Harvard; former Dean of Harvard College, wrote in his blog: “Try whozat.com. I learned things about myself I didn’t know. Seriously. And now I’m checking on you.”
• Whozat has since launched SocialDiligence.com, pioneering the first search engine that can search based on a resume (or any document).
• I put my involvement in Whozat on hold to focus on QLess, due to its rapid growth and demands on my time.

Jul 2006 – Dec 2006 · 5 mos

• Co-creator of Choizi.com. Find the best place to have lunch or dinner today at http://www.Choizi.com . My role here was just providing ideas, support and advice --most of the work was done by Ram.

Oct 2005 – Jul 2006 · 9 mos

• Boosted the reach of Search Engine Marketing campaigns by up to 580% while simultaneously reducing their cost per action by up to 78%.

Dec 2004 – Nov 2008 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Adapt automates the management and optimization of search engine marketing campaigns on Google and Yahoo with do-it-yourself technologies for keyword discovery, bid optimization, ad testing, competitive research and more, making paid search accessible to small businesses and extending the reach of large marketers' campaigns to the long tail of keywords. Adapt was acquired by WebVisible in 2008, which was in turn acquired by The Berry Company in 2013, which was renamed Vivial in 2016.

Dec 2004 – Oct 2005 · 10 mos

• Grew net revenues by more than 200% every quarter of tenure.

Jun 2002 – May 2005 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Created and led the Bits, Brains and Genes Lab. Publications can be found at http://alexbacker.com/caltech/pub.html and http://alexbacker.pbwiki.com/Science .

Jun 1999 – Aug 1999 · 2 mos

• Was selected for the first batch for advanced professional degree interns. Improved profitability for a major bank. Got (and declined) a job offer for a permanent position.

Jan 1995 – Jun 2005 · 10 yrs 5 mos

• Publications can be found at http://alexbacker.com/caltech/pub.html and http://alexbacker.pbwiki.com/Science .