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Tim

Tim Shi is the Co-Founder & CTO of Cresta. He started his PhD at Stanford AI Lab researching natural language processing and reinforcement learning. He was an early member of the OpenAI team in 2016 and made contribution to building safe AGI in digital environments. His work on "world of bits" laid foundation for web-based reinforcement learning agents. He co-founded Cresta in 2017 and Cresta was one of first companies to deploy generative AI in enterprise, including GPT based suggestions product in 2019. Cresta is backed by top investors including Sequoia, a16z, Greylock and helps drive hundreds of millions in ROI across Fortune 500 customers like United Airlines, US Bank and Verizon. He and his team hold multiple patents in AI for contact center conversations.

Yogesh

I'm a repeat founder (15+ yrs, 4 ventures) now building an AI-powered passive investing platform. Deep in wealthtech, GTM, and automation. Always up to jam on ideas, collaborate, or sanity-check bold bets—let’s connect.

Henry

Exploring ideas in the AI + SRE world. Prev cold emailed my way to an early eng job @ Bubble, wound up leading product on Bubble's Infra + AI teams, then left once the company had 5x'd in size. Applied Math/CS @ Harvard. Occasional semi-pro musician.

Abhishek

Passionate about all things Startups, Fintech and Investing | Core Values - Empathy, Curiosity & Humility

Dhruv

Product manager, Deep Mind and Google Search Tech lead, Google Search and Microsoft Office I want to turn tech research into viable businesses. Know the most about NLP and ML and very interested in robotics, education, energy and space.

Rishi

Rishi is a software engineer at Airtable. Before that, he was the first employee at Zulip, an open source team chat application.

Vineet

Entrepreneur. Previously co-founded IDfy, CredRight and Gaboli. Looking forward to my -1 to 0 journey with SPC.

Dilan

CEO @ System2 - on a mission to bring a fitness coach to every human. Obsessed with personal growth & futurism. Serial founder, Investor, YC08, CTO Scoopler (aq Google), CS, Physics @ MIT

Faraz

Faraz is a tech entrepreneur who previously founded two companies, including Screenhero, which sold to Slack. He's currently really into robotics.

Benjamin

Exploring in education. Previously building Songbird Therapy, a tech-enabled autism platform across 3 states / mid 7 figures. Let's chat about AI in services, labor markets, automated outbound, growth, regulated markets, modern entrepreneurship, interns!