David W.
Carroll

David W. Carroll

My vision is to identify the patterns that emerge at our civilization's nexus points - where technology, society, economy, market, and humanity converge - and to build the revolutionary innovations that this convergence demands.

1963 (Age 13)

The Prodigy

Won the NASA award for Space Communications and Electronics after teaching myself to program IBM mainframes.

1970s

The Entrepreneur

Invented a mini-computer-based telephone billing system, which was then acquired by my employer.

1990s - 2012

The Architect

At Sony, designed the "next generation" DirecTV digital broadcast system, the DCDS Digital Signage System, co-architected the 4K digital cinema system that generated $1B in sales and invented a digital media workflow product family still sold 14+ years later.

2015 - 2025

The Unicorn CTO

As hands-on CTO, rebuilt the entire tech stack for Spotter during its "near-death" 5-person phase, scaling it to a $1.7B unicorn and curating over a billion YouTube video data points. Then led AI R&D team for 3 years and built systems to generate 3.5 million thumbnails for creators.

2025

The Founder

Graduated from Founder Institute, Los Angeles Spring 2025 cohort, prepared to move forward to the next opportunity.

I have seen the new nexus point. The internet is drowning in AI-generated noise. My new mission is to build the innovation this moment demands.

I am building TrueFeed.

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