Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

Alex

Alex is the co-founder of Playbook.com, a cloud storage and collaboration tool for creatives. Before that, he studied at CMU and was an engineer at Addepar and Opendoor.

Ryan

Seasoned engineering leader: systems, data platform, MLOps, open source. Now focused on climate tech and decentralized social. Previously: NCX, Color, Quip, Google. More at https://snarfed.org/

Jingwei

Building withpanorama.com. Formerly Staff Eng / TLM @ Lyft, Cash App. Spent thousands of hours reading, researching, and applying practices on group dynamics and individual psychology. Meditate a lot. Based in SF, sometimes in LA.

Ryan

15+ years in tech, mostly as a PM at companies like Google (PM for Sheets), Celonis (enterprise SaaS startup), and Pickie (a mobile commerce startup I co-founded). Now diving into AI and its many applications, and exploring where to invest my time next.

Manasvi

Manasvi is working on communication relay satellites. He previously worked at ViaSat with the ground infrastructure of satellites serving the internet.

Sambhav

SPG@Affirm; avid squash player

Claudio

Creative Technologist working on the intersection of AI, Geographic Information Systems, and Software. Focusing on building spatially aware machine learning models and collaborating with Open Source projects.

Nina

I am the co-founder of Loopin. Loopin is the Mary Poppins’ bag for fashion girls.

Andrew

TLDR: - Previously Founder & CEO of Nova (acq. by Handshake) - Led generative AI products at Handshake - Write the TLDR AI & Founders newsletters (1M subs total - tldr.tech/ai) - Background in AI research, product, engineering, data, and investing from Google AI, Citadel, AQR, Sequoia, Branch - Angel investor in Anthropic, Pika, Mercury, Replit, Alchemy, Uniswap, Runway ML, Varda Space, Pinecone, Coframe, MultiOn, Decagon, Gumloop, Haize Labs, Mercor, Goodfire AI, Etched, and many more - Undergrad at UC Berkeley (CS & Stats), grad school at Stanford (AI) Love sports (basketball, tennis, golf, triathlon, weightlifting), puzzles & strategy games, cooking, history, and traveling. But most importantly, I love meeting, learning from, and working with amazing people.

Ankit

Builder. - liked to paint as a kid - worked on racecars and did standup comedy as a fresher in IIT - started off joining early YC-backed teams - found love in tinkering with tech to solve problems - failed building a company in final year of undegrad - moved to the Bay during masters at CMU - picked up on AI wave - building B2B SaaS startup with friends from college