Shivon Alice Zilis was born on February 8,1986 and is a Canadian venture capitalist who works in the technology and artificial intelligence fields.
11 Facts About Shivon Zilis
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Shivon Alice Zilis was born in Markham, Ontario, Canada on 8 February 1986 to Sharda, a Punjabi Indian, and Richard, a white Canadian.
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Shivon Zilis is an only child and one of her parents is a former federal bureaucrat.
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Shivon Zilis graduated from Yale University on academic and athletic financial aid in 2008, with degrees in economics and philosophy.
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Shivon Zilis identifies with philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and David Hume.
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Shivon Zilis is a Fellow at the Creative Destruction Lab, on the board of Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, and a charter member of C100.
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In 2015, Shivon Zilis was listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for venture capital.
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Shivon Zilis serves as director of operations and special projects at Neuralink and reports directly to Elon Musk.
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Shivon Zilis met Musk through her non-profit work at OpenAI, of which she was a board member until 2023.
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In July 2022, it was revealed through the obtaining of Travis County, Texas court documents that Shivon Zilis had twins with Elon Musk who were born in November 2021.
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Shivon Zilis stated in 2020, that Musk is the person she admires most despite criticism towards him.