Michael Thomas is a Venture Partner at Pebblebed and one of the most accomplished talent executives in the AI industry. He has spent his career building the teams behind some of the most ambitious technical organizations ever assembled.

Michael helped launch Facebook AI Research (FAIR) — one of the defining AI labs of the past decade — and went on to scale Research and AI teams at Cruise, Facebook Reality Labs, and The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Few people have recruited at the intersection of frontier research and real-world deployment with his track record.

His gift is identifying people who are extraordinary in ways that don't show up on a resume: the operators who get things done when it's hard, the researchers who are three years ahead of the field, the founders whose conviction is backed by real insight.

Michael is drawn to founders building things that make you ask: "Wait, can you actually do that?" His operating philosophy is simple: EQ > IQ.