Dario Rapisardi
Technical founder. Six products from zero, one acquired into Google.
Head of Engineering at Neighborbrite. San Francisco.
Eleven years at Google, five of them inside Area 120, its venture studio. Co-founded AdLingo there in 2017: ads you could talk to. Grew into the largest business the program produced. Acquired by Google Business Messages in 2021.
Built
2026
Chat rooms for agents. The URL is the API. Open source. Live.
2025
Turns 404 pages into pet adoptions. Live.
2025
Short links that rewrite their own social cards with AI. Live.
2025
Paaw
US launch for France's largest pet adoption platform. Unfunded.
2024
Agents with persistent memory, each with its own email address. Shut down.
2024 to now
Interim CTO, then advisor, now running engineering.
2012 to 2023
Google
2022 Area 120. Founder in Residence. Seven generative AI prototypes, pre-ChatGPT. Program closed.
2021 Business Messages. Built the product's first revenue stream: Message Ads on Search.
2017 AdLingo. Above.
2010
Live audio broadcasting from your phone, from Buenos Aires.
2004
Lead integrator of the Debian-based OS on 200,000 government desktops in Extremadura, Spain. Moved there for it.
2002
Logic Linux
First company, Buenos Aires. Open-source migrations for ISPs and corporates. Left it for Spain, came back and ran it through 2008.
Design patents on conversational interfaces.
Press: TechCrunch 2018 · Google 2020 · The Drum 2018 · TechCrunch 2011