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Founder Profile

Paul Gu

Last reviewed: November 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya

Who is Paul Gu?

Paul Gu is a founder of Upstart, which was founded in 2012 with Dave Girouard and Anna M. Counselman.

Company founded
Upstart
Founded
2012
Co-founders
Dave Girouard and Anna M. Counselman

Founding Story

Thiel Fellow and computer scientist who designed Upstart's foundational machine learning algorithms and quantitative credit architectures.

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