Kenneth Schlenker
Cofounder & CEO

Kenneth Schlenker

Kenneth Schlenker is the co-founder and CEO of Opal, the #1 screen time and focus app used by more than 1 million people every day. Before founding Opal, Kenneth worked at Google, studying user behavior and engagement across products including YouTube and Google Search. He spent the beginning of his career learning what makes people stay online, and the years since helping people take that attention back. Today, Kenneth writes and speaks about attention, AI, education, and human agency, particularly how people can preserve their attention as technology becomes more powerful. Opal was named a 2025 Apple Design Awards finalist for Social Impact and is now used in schools including Harvard-Westlake, Trevor Day School, and The Loomis Chaffee School. Opal users have saved over 500 million hours to date. Opal raised from Adjacent, Speedinvest, and founders of Duolingo, Pinterest, Mistral and more, on a mission to align computers with human well-being.

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