Founder & CEO, OpenRouter

Alex Atallah

Alex Atallah is the founder and CEO of OpenRouter, the unified interface for large language models. He was previously the co-founder and CTO of OpenSea, which he helped scale into the world's largest NFT marketplace.

Known For

Building OpenSeaFounding OpenRouter

Canon

Distillation Attacks: Why Open-Source Models Create Asymmetric Advantage

Novel

Episodes

#20VC: Will OpenRouter Sell for $10BN to Stripe? | Why Chinese Open Models Are Beating America—and What Happens Next | Why Enterprises Are More Fearful of Anthropic and OpenAI Than China | Is the Routing Layer Becoming a Commodity with Alex AtallahAug 10, 2026