Jeff Holden

Jeff’s adventures began at D. E. Shaw & Co., in NYC after graduating with his BS & MS in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Jeff Bezos was his first manager, and they worked together for three years before Bezos started Amazon. Jeff moved over to Amazon in 1997 and spent almost 9 years there, first leading the charge on Amazon’s back-end supply chain and fulfillment infrastructure and then heading up Consumer, where he delivered Amazon Prime amongst many other things. After Amazon, Jeff co-founded and served as CEO of Pelago, a startup focused on urban discovery and recommendations based on GPS history. After 5+ years and two successful funding rounds, he sold Pelago to Groupon and joined as SVP, Product. In 2014, he joined Uber as its Chief Product Officer, where he spearheaded Self-Driving (ATG), Eats, Pool, AI Labs, Elevate, and Uber’s developer API. Atomic Machines is a pursuit of passion for Jeff: he is fascinated by the command of matter and looks to bring all of his experience to bear to create a radically innovative and durable company singularly focused on ushering in the era of atomically precise manufacturing.