David Beyer

David Beyer joined the early team of a UK-based company called Patients Know Best, which gives patients control over their medical records. Eventually, wanting to strike out on his own, he then co-founded Chartio with Dave Fowler. Both of these experiences were crash courses in just how much he didn’t know about building companies. There’s nothing quite like feeling the search for product-market fit or experiencing the dread of startup uncertainty.

At Amplify, David started out with a focus on infrastructure and developer tools. Around 2015, I expanded to all things machine learning, in particular, the toolchain and infrastructure building blocks, as well as the various applications on top. Underneath all of this is a long-standing excitement around anything vaguely sci-fi or “frontier technology.”

David loves windsurfing, kayaking, and swimming. He plays the piano and has been making half-hearted attempts to pick up the saxophone again. When Covid is over, he’d love to get back into improv, as well as generally being near people. Otherwise, you can find David reading math and philosophy stuff, room scrolling, and playing practical jokes on his colleagues.