Lawrence GentilelloFounder

United States - San Francisco, California

Lawrence is CEO and Founder of Optery (Y Combinator W22, StartX F21), whose mission is to put consumers in control of their personal data. Optery is automated opt out software that automatically removes you from hundreds of data brokers posting and selling your personal information online.

Prior to founding Optery, Lawrence led Accenture’s Data Management Platforms (DMP) practice in North America. Prior to Accenture he was a Product Management and Technical Consulting leader at Oracle and BlueKai (acquired by Oracle for $400MM+).

As an entrepreneur, Lawrence has been founding innovative companies since he was an undergraduate at Stanford and first featured in Business Week magazine at age 20. During college in the year 1999, Lawrence launched a popular web site called Steamtunnels with Stanford classmates Aaron Bell (Google, AdRoll) and Tuyen Truong (Screenleap). The site included an online facebook that pre-dated Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook at Harvard by five years. The trio ran into similar difficulties with the school administration over allegations of copyright violation when posting student photos, and ultimately took the site down due to mounting University pressure. The story received coverage in the national press. Tuyen and Lawrence teamed up again in 2011 to pioneer frictionless screen sharing as founders of Screenleap (Y Combinator W12).