About Paul

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Paul Cheek, the global authority on AI-driven entrepreneurship and enterprise innovation, is changing the way that organizations start and scale in the AI era. He is a Senior Lecturer of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the MIT Sloan School of Management and Senior Advisor for Entrepreneurship & Artificial Intelligence at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship.

Paul is the founder of the AI-Driven Enterprise Institute (AIDE), a data company that provides corporate boards and executives with the actionable data and insights needed to steer AI strategy. Its mission is to accelerate human progress by establishing the AI-Driven Enterprise model as the global standard for creating, building, and investing in world-changing ventures. He is also the founder of Entonomy, which develops software that powers AI agent-run businesses.

Paul serves as a Senior Advisor to the College Board, advancing business and finance education globally, and sits on the Board of Directors of the Carroll Center for the Blind, where he contributes to the Audit & Finance and Strategic Planning committees. He also serves on the CNBC Disruptor 50 Advisory Board, the MIT Sandbox Funding Board, and judges the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s CO—100 Awards.

A serial tech entrepreneur, educator, and software engineer, Paul has co-founded multiple ventures, earning recognition on Forbes 30 Under 30, the definitive list of young people changing the world. His bestselling book, Disciplined Entrepreneurship: Startup Tactics, and accompanying teaching materials are used by educators and innovators worldwide. In his role as a Senior Lecturer, Paul teaches hundreds of MIT and Harvard undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students each year in MIT’s most popular entrepreneurship courses. Paul was MIT’s first Hacker in Residence and has since taught, mentored, and advised thousands of entrepreneurs around the world.  As the former Executive Director of the MIT Trust Center for Entrepreneurship, Paul led the development of strategy and operational plans for MIT’s entrepreneurship programs and courses. His leadership at MIT has been recognized with the Adolf F. Monosson ’48 Prize for longstanding impact on entrepreneurship education.

Paul advises a range of companies from seed to Series B, including Infinity Constellation, Lyzr, and The General Intelligence Company. He has previously built technologies for and consulted with firms such as BlackRock, Prudential, Mazda, and LogMeIn.

His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Inc. Magazine.

You can learn more about Paul on his website, PaulCheek.com, or follow him on LinkedIn.

Short Bio

Paul Cheek, the global authority on AI-driven entrepreneurship and enterprise innovation, is changing the way that organizations start and scale in the AI era. He is the Senior Advisor for Entrepreneurship & AI and former Executive Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, a Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the MIT Sloan School of Management, and the bestselling author of Disciplined Entrepreneurship: Startup Tactics. Currently, Paul is the founder of Enotonomy, which builds software for AI-run companies and the AI-Driven Enterprise Institute, a data company that provides corporate boards and executives with the actionable data and insights needed to steer AI strategy. Paul was MIT’s first Hacker in Residence and has since taught, mentored, and advised thousands of entrepreneurs around the world. Paul was named to Forbes 30 Under 30, the definitive list of young people changing the world. Paul is a co-founder of Oceanworks, a for-profit company with a mission to end plastic pollution and previously co-founded Work Today, a venture-backed digital staffing and recruiting company. Paul advises startups and both speaks and consults with Fortune 500 companies and universities globally to advance AI & entrepreneurship. You can learn more about Paul on his website, PaulCheek.com, or follow him on LinkedIn.

Current Roles

Senior Advisor, Entrepreneurship & AI, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management
Co-Founder & Advisor, Oceanworks
Senior Advisor, College Board
Board Member, Carroll Center for the Blind

Advisor, Infinity Constellation
Advisor, Lyzr AI
Advisor, General Intelligence Company
Advisor, PicaOS

Awards

• MIT
  Adolf F. Monosson ’48 Prize

• Oracle
  Change Agents Sustainability Award - Earthfirst Award for Operational Excellence in Sustainability (Oceanworks)

• Forbes
  30 Under 30 - Energy

• Cisco
  Spark the Industry - Best in Sales

Patents

US 11,004,055 B2
Data processing apparatus with a logic processing device for processing network data records transmitted from a plurality of remote, distributed terminal devices

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