Paper Compute Launches — GitHub Veteran Brian Douglas and Ex-AWS Engineers Build Open-Source Agent Infrastructure Layer

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Brian Douglas (formerly Open Sauced, Linux Foundation) and John McBride (ex-AWS) launch Paper Compute Company to build the missing production infrastructure layer beneath AI agents — spanning observability, execution, and orchestration. Starting with Tapes and StereOS products, entirely open source. Founding engineer Matthew Yeazel comes from AWS EC2/Bottlerocket.