Keith Adams is a founder and General Partner at Pebblebed, an early-stage venture capital firm supporting innovation in AI. Prior to starting Pebblebed, he was Chief Architect at Slack for 4 years, and was an engineer at Facebook (now Meta) from 2009 to 2015, where he founded Facebook AI Research (FAIR) in 2013. He began his career as the 20th engineer at VMware. He is the author of 14 US patents covering computing, and has written widely cited academic papers about systems, programming languages, and artificial intelligence.