Jonathan Lachman
Jonathan Lachman is an operations executive whose career moved from national-security work into AI labs. He studied history at Princeton and completed graduate study at Harvard Kennedy School, then held senior posts at the United States Department of Defense and the Office of Management and Budget. He led operations at Leap Motion and Blend, where he helped annual revenue grow from $20 million to $250 million before Blend went public in 2021. In 2025, he joined Thinking Machines Lab after leading special projects at OpenAI. As of October 2026, he is the lab's founding head of operations.
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Timeline
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By 2017
Study and public service
He studies history at Princeton and completes graduate study at Harvard Kennedy School before moving to Silicon Valley in 2017. Before the move, he serves as chief of staff to the deputy secretary of defense and as deputy director for national-security programs at the Office of Management and Budget.
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2017
Operating at Leap Motion
He leaves Washington for Silicon Valley and joins Leap Motion as chief operating officer in 2017.
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2020–2021
Blend operations and growth
By 2020, he is vice president of operations at Blend. He leads strategy as its annual revenue grows from $20 million to $250 million, and Blend goes public in 2021.
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2025
Joining Thinking Machines Lab
In 2025, he joins Thinking Machines Lab after serving as OpenAI's head of special projects.
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As of October 2026
Founding head of operations
As of October 2026, he is the founding head of operations at Thinking Machines Lab.
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