Ethan Sutin

Ethan Sutin (born January 14, 1981) is an American entrepreneur, researcher, and angel investor. He is best known for co-founding Squad,[1] which was acquired by Twitter,[2][3][4] and for being the technical lead for Harvard's Project Implicit.

Ethan Sutin
Born (1981-01-14) January 14, 1981
St. Louis, MO
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Missouri
Occupation
  • Entrepreneur
  • Startup Founder
  • Angel Investor
Known forStartups

Early life

Sutin grew up in St. Louis, MO. He discovered technology at a young age, programming in Pascal on an Apple II.

Education

Sutin attended Ladue High School in St. Louis, graduating in 1999.

Sutin enrolled as an undergraduate degree student at University of Missouri. He majored in Computer Science. He graduated magna cum laude.

Career

Following undergraduate, Sutin joined Harvard's Project Implicit[5] as Tech Lead. Project Implicit is a technology platform for researchers to publish their studies online. It is the largest participant study in NIH history.

After 4 years at Project Implicit, Sutin moved to San Francisco and worked at various early stage startups such as GoGrid and Sysdig.

In 2016 he founded Squad, a group video chat app. Squad raised $7.2 million in seed funding from investors that included Y Combinator, First Round Capital, and Betaworks.[6] Squad's allowed users to cowatch videos during group video calls.

Sutin now works at Twitter, bringing new forms of creation and self-expression to the platform.[7] Sutin and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey are both from St. Louis.[8]

Publications

Devos, Thierry; Nosek, Brian; Hansen, Jeffrey; Sutin, Ethan; Ruhling, Roy (2005). "Explorer les attitudes et croyances implicites: lancement d'un site internet en langue française". Les Cahiers internationaux de psychologie sociale. 2 (2): 81–83. doi:10.3917/cips.066.0081. Retrieved 2021-01-11.

Nosek, Brian; Sutin, Ethan; Jeffrey, Hansen; Lili, Wu (2016). "Project implicit demo website datasets". Psyarxiv. Retrieved 2021-01-11.

References
  1. "Squad is the new screensharing chat app everyone will copy". Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  2. "Twitter Acquires Text, Video and Screen-Sharing App Squad". Retrieved 2020-12-30.
  3. "Twitter bought a startup that lets you virtually hang out with your friends". Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  4. "Twitter acquires and then shuts down screen-sharing social app Squad". Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  5. "Project Implicit". Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  6. "Squad, the 'anti-bro startup,' is creating a safe space for teenage girls online". Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  7. "Twitter". Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  8. "Twitter buys St. Louis native's screen-sharing app". Retrieved 2020-12-30.
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