Jensen Harris
CEO,
Textio
United States
Jensen Harris is CEO and co-founder of Textio, the company building essential AI for managers that make the hardest parts of the job so much easier.
Jensen was the creative visionary behind one of the first generative AI systems ever released, Textio Flow in 2019. As Textio's founding CTO, Jensen led Textio’s R&D team, including engineering, product, design, program management, security, and privacy, for the first eight years of the company.
Jensen is known for designing beautiful, powerful, and forward-thinking products that are used every day by a billion people. In a 15-year career at Microsoft, he guided the creation of some of the most widely-used and influential software in the world: the innovative Ribbon user interface of Microsoft Office, the often-imitated email design of Microsoft Outlook, and the pioneering touch-optimized software experience built for Microsoft Surface.
A graduate of Yale University and Interlochen Arts Academy with degrees in music composition, Jensen speaks worldwide on topics of human/computer interaction, user interface design, startup leadership, and software engineering. He lives in Seattle with his wife, three girls, and two cats.
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