Dave Barney

Dave’s interest in mental fitness is personal. In 2022, as a startup executive under heavy stress, he let his sleep, exercise and downtime slide, and he learned the hard way that it wasn’t sustainable. Rebuilding those basics changed how he handles pressure, and that experience shapes the conversations he has on the show.

He has built software with machine learning at its core since the late 1990s, including more than ten years at Google as an engineer and product manager. He then served as CTO of Kanopy and several startups before co-founding ElizaChat, the company behind the NUE mental fitness app, in 2023. He studied computer science at Brigham Young University, where he also earned his MBA, and took graduate courses in machine learning at Stanford.