Stephen Trusheim
Improving Human Systems

About Me

Who is this “Stephen Trusheim,” really?

An esteemed photographer once told me, 'your forehead is too big here.' I think about that more than I should.

  • It’s pronounced “steven true-sime”

  • Commissioner, 2035 Worlds’ Fair, San Francisco

  • Partner, [tba]

  • Previously: Cofounder & CEO, Tome; Partner & Head of Ops, SignalFire

  • B.S. & M.S., Computer Science (AI), Stanford University 🌲

  • Forbes 30 Under 30 (for venture capital)

  • Namesake of minor planet 25483 Trusheim (for bioinformatics)

Fun Facts

  • Excited by: technology that frees us all.

  • Artist who most speaks to my soul: David Shrigley

  • Greatest weakness: thalassophilia + seasickness

  • Get in my head: Here’s my Spotify On Repeat playlist.

  • Learning: ergodicity economics, orbital mechanics, Old Aramaic

Hi. It’s me, Stephen Trusheim. I’m an optimistic AI guy. Here’s my hot take: AI enables every human to be even more human. That could be great news, or it could be terrible news; I’m pushing for the former. I love working with other people who are doing the same.

I’m the Commissioner of the 2035 Worlds’ Fair, San Francisco, where I’m coordinating an incredible group of optimists to create and host the sort of World’s Fair that we only read about in history textbooks. We’re working on our marketing materials right now; feel free to email me if you want to get involved early.

I’m also a Partner at [tba], a financial services firm located at the intersection of AI & Venture Capital. That’s not its real name — please also feel free to email me name ideas.

Previously, I was the co-founder & CEO of Tome, the world’s first AI-powered commercial legal service — acquired by AngelList. We used AI to reliably answer common legal questions, especially questions like “is this contract standard?” I started Tome because I’m passionate about lowering the barriers to success for entrepreneurs, and today’s expensive legal system represents… well, whatever’s the opposite of a level playing field.

Before that, I was Partner & Head of Operations at SignalFire, where I helped build the firm 0→ 1. SignalFire is the world’s first AI-powered venture capital firm: we use AI & brains to find exceptional founders, then we use AI & brains to accelerate their success. As a Partner, I built our AI systems, then I turned the predictive filters up to 11, then I invested in those companies. As the Head of Operations, I also built and ran the back office of our SEC-Registered Investment Adviser from $0 to $3 billion+ in AUM, managing operations, legal, finance, audit, and compliance across 35 funds and 650+ investments.

I hold B.S. and M.S. degrees in AI from Stanford University, where I graduated with the Outstanding Achievement Award and the James W. Lyons Award for Service. I’ve worked on the Federal Reserve Task Force on Faster Payments, served on multiple non-profit boards, and promoted lots of concerts. Back when I was younger and more foolish, I was named Forbes 30 Under 30, and (separately) awarded an iron-rich main-belt asteroid — located, for your convenience, just past Mars.

If you’re looking for a serious biography, click here.

My email and all my active socials are linked below. I don’t have a Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc. But feel free to connect with me on that popular social media site, “GitHub.”