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Quinn Slack

Founders to Watch · Fall 2026

Quinn Slack

Co-founder; CEO of Amp

Sourcegraph

Series D+ Coding agents & developer tools
Why watch Slack wants every developer to search, understand, and eventually automate work across large messy codebases.

Quinn Slack is co-founder of Sourcegraph, the enterprise code-search company, and co-founder and chief executive of Amp, a coding-agent company, according to his AI Engineer speaker profile. He started Sourcegraph with Beyang Liu, its CTO.

Deploying Software at Palantir

Slack's development career was self-taught, the EnterpriseReady podcast said, and he worked as a forward deployed engineer at Palantir Technologies before Sourcegraph. He also sits on the board of Hack Club.

Splitting Amp from Sourcegraph

His work moved from searching unfamiliar codebases to building AI systems that can understand, modify, and evaluate software. Sourcegraph and Amp later became independent companies, with Slack running Amp and staying on as co-founder and former chief executive of Sourcegraph. On The Changelog he talked through the move from code search to code intelligence and the launch of Cody, Sourcegraph's coding assistant.

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