About Morgan Linton

Hi I’m Morgan, and I thought I’d take a moment to introduce myself 👋

First, please don’t mistake me for an expert, because I am far from one. I am, however, someone that gets excited about a lot of things, and I’m endlessly curious.

I was born and raised in Berkeley, CA, went to college and studied Engineering in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon, and after school went to work for a tiny startup called Sonos.

When I joined Sonos, they were pretty much running out of money, I was actually told I might not have a job for long. But I loved the idea, really liked the founders, and took the plunge.

Luckily, Sonos did not run out of money, and I was there from ~35 people to ~1,000 people.

I was at Sonos for nine years, but knew working for a company, esp. one that was now 1,000 people, wasn’t my path, I really wanted to start and run my own business.

After that, I started Bold Metrics which I run today as the Cofounder/CTO. I have an amazing team that I am incredible proud of. They are all 10x smarter than I will ever be.

At Bold Metrics, I pushed us to adopt agentic coding workflows in early 2025. Through this experience I started benchmarking our own stack, actual PRs from our repos, and helped my team understand what models and effort levels they really needed for regular daily work.

What I learned is that benchmarking models across effort levels led to fascinating results. As I shared this with a few friends in SF, they all said I should open source my benchmarking tool and share the results.

So I did, and I called it VulcanBench. Today VulcanBench is the biggest money-losing thing I’ve ever done, and I love it. I get to wake up every morning and see new insights about models that I try to turn into real signal that other engineering teams can use.

I live in Lake Tahoe, it’s my favorite place on earth. I’m not a big foodie or restaurant guy, and I don’t drink, so the whole “dinner and drinks” thing isn’t really my jam.

I would much rather chat while riding a ski lift than in a noisy crowded restaurant. And I love cooking so would always rather cook at home.

When it comes to this blog, I don’t know how often I’ll write, or what I’ll write about. I’m not collecting email addresses, trying to get subscribers, or anything like that. I just want to write for the sake of writing.