Ain McKendrick is the founder and CEO of Faction. Before establishing Faction, Ain served as VP of Engineering at Starsky Robotics, where he led the team that pioneered the first fully driverless semi trucks on public roads in North America. He was the Senior Director of Netflix’s Partner Products team, playing a pivotal role in bringing Netflix Instant Streaming to connected consumer devices. Throughout his career, Ain has co-founded several startup ventures and began his journey in the tech industry as one of the founding members of Palm Computing, where he contributed to the development of the original PalmPilot PDA.