{"name":"Varun Villait","role":"Co-founder, AgentScore","location":"Scottsdale, AZ","timeZone":"America/Phoenix","url":"https://varun.villaits.com","email":"vvillait88@gmail.com","bio":"Co-founder of AgentScore, where we build Hivemind, AI agents that take on real work inside companies. Before that, Chief Product Officer at People Data Labs, after 15 years building data and fintech products.","practice":["Product strategy","Product management","Engineering","Data platforms","Partnerships","Go-to-market","IT & security"],"education":{"school":"University of Connecticut","degree":"B.S. Computer and Electrical Engineering"},"links":[{"network":"GitHub","url":"https://github.com/vvillait88"},{"network":"LinkedIn","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/varunv88"},{"network":"X","url":"https://x.com/varunv_88"}],"facts":["Co-founded AgentScore with Sean Thorne in 2026","Built Hivemind, AI agents that take on real work inside companies","Built AgentScore's open-source payment tools for AI agents, in TypeScript and Python","Created the People Data Labs JavaScript SDK and led its official SDKs in Python, Go, Ruby and Rust","Chief Product Officer at People Data Labs, running product, engineering, product marketing, IT and security","Grew People Data Labs from zero to mid-eight figures in revenue","Built and led products that have generated over $100M in cumulative revenue","Founding CTO and CPO, then CEO, at Industry; founder of Rebl Cards; partnerships lead at Deserve"],"built":[{"name":"Hivemind","url":"https://hivemind.agentscore.com","summary":"Hivemind by AgentScore builds and runs AI agents for companies. A business expert learns how a company works, then we tailor agents for contracts, sales, data analysis, data QA and marketing and run them in the team's Slack.","tags":["Agents","Evals"]},{"name":"AgentScore Commerce","url":"https://github.com/agentscore/node-commerce","summary":"Our open-source merchant SDKs and API clients for TypeScript and Python. They let a business accept payments from AI agents, with identity checks built in.","tags":["npm","PyPI"]},{"name":"People Data Labs","url":"https://www.peopledatalabs.com","summary":"I led the product as People Data Labs grew from a person enrichment API into a full data platform: search, IP and job posting data, a self-serve dashboard, and delivery through AWS, Snowflake and Databricks.","tags":["Data APIs","Dashboard","Platform"]},{"name":"AgentScore Pay","url":"https://github.com/agentscore/pay","summary":"A command-line tool that lets an AI agent pay a merchant without ever handling a private key.","tags":["CLI","MCP"]},{"name":"People Data Labs SDKs","url":"https://github.com/peopledatalabs/peopledatalabs-js","summary":"I created the People Data Labs JavaScript SDK and shipped over 100 releases of it, and led the official SDKs for Python, Go, Ruby and Rust.","tags":["npm","PyPI","Go","Ruby","Rust"]}],"experience":[{"company":"AgentScore","url":"https://www.agentscore.com","logo":"/logos/agentscore.svg","title":"Co-founder","start":"2026","end":null,"summary":"I co-founded AgentScore with Sean Thorne in 2026. I split my time between running the company and writing a lot of its code, including our open-source payment tools for AI agents."},{"company":"People Data Labs","url":"https://www.peopledatalabs.com","logo":"/logos/pdl.svg","title":"Chief Product Officer","start":"2020","end":"2026","summary":"I joined as Senior Director of Product and became VP and then Chief Product Officer, running product, engineering, product marketing, IT and security while the company grew from zero to mid-eight figures in revenue. We turned a person enrichment API into a full data platform with search, IP and job posting data, a self-serve dashboard, SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001, and delivery through AWS, Snowflake and Databricks."},{"company":"Deserve","url":null,"logo":"/logos/deserve.png","title":"Head of Platform Partnerships","start":"2020","end":"2021","summary":"I was Head of Platform Partnerships at Deserve, where I led partnerships with BlockFi, Sallie Mae, M1 Finance, Visa and Marqeta."},{"company":"Rebl Cards","url":null,"logo":"/logos/rebl.png","title":"Founder & CEO","start":"2019","end":"2020","summary":"I founded Rebl Cards and ran it as CEO. We built a credit card for people with limited or poor credit."},{"company":"Industry","url":"https://www.industry.co","logo":"/logos/industry.png","title":"CEO","start":"2015","end":"2019","summary":"I joined Industry, a hiring network for the hospitality business, as founding CTO and CPO in 2015. I became CEO in 2018."},{"company":"Playboy","url":"https://www.playboy.com","logo":"/logos/playboy.png","title":"Senior Product Manager","start":"2012","end":"2016","summary":"I rose from sysadmin to director of IT, then moved into engineering and product as a senior software engineer and senior product manager. I built the Playboy apps for Apple TV and mobile and built features for Playboy.com."}],"writing":[{"title":"How we do AI at AgentScore","url":"https://www.agentscore.com/blog/how-we-do-ai-at-agentscore","summary":"One version-controlled brain every teammate and AI tool reads, plus agents the team works with in Slack."}],"stack":[{"area":"AI & agents","tools":["Claude Code","Anthropic","OpenAI","AI SDK","eve","MCP","Braintrust","PyTorch","Hugging Face"]},{"area":"Payments","tools":["Stripe","Tempo","Solana","Base","x402","MPP","viem"]},{"area":"Data","tools":["Spark","Databricks","Snowflake","Delta Lake","DuckDB","Polars","Dagster","Airflow","Elasticsearch"]},{"area":"Infra","tools":["AWS","Terraform","Vercel","PostgreSQL","Redis","OpenTelemetry","Datadog"]},{"area":"Languages","tools":["TypeScript","Python","Go","Rust","React","Next.js","FastAPI","Bun"]}]}