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  "markdown": "Founder and CEO, Freestyle.\n\nBenjamin Swerdlow is founder and chief executive of Freestyle, a San Francisco company from Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch that builds fast, snapshottable virtual machines for AI agents. He left Apple to start it.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benswerdlow/\n- X: https://x.com/benswerd\n\n## What Benjamin builds\n\n- [Freestyle](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/freestyle.md), graded C, 58.8/100, in Code execution sandboxes. Freestyle runs full Linux virtual machines for AI agents, with pause and resume that keeps memory, snapshots, private networks and domains. Agents drive it through a REST API, a TypeScript SDK and a CLI from one npm package. Founder and CEO, Freestyle, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Jacob Zwang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jacob-zwang/), Founder and CTO, Freestyle\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Benjamin Swerdlow?\n\nBenjamin Swerdlow is founder and chief executive of Freestyle, a San Francisco company from Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch that builds fast, snapshottable virtual machines for AI agents. He left Apple to start it.\n\n### What does Freestyle Cloud Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Freestyle from Freestyle Cloud Inc.. Freestyle runs full Linux virtual machines for AI agents, with pause and resume that keeps memory, snapshots, private networks and domains. Agents drive it through a REST API, a TypeScript SDK and a CLI from one npm package.\n\n### How are Benjamin's tools graded?\n\nFreestyle is graded C, 58.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.freestyle.sh\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/freestyle\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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