Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

Nic

Former SPC staff & professional sailor. A background in building ops, sales, & marketing stacks at very early stage companies.

Rishi

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

Mac

Hi, I'm Mac 👋. I'm actively exploring problems at the intersection of AI and American dynamism. My inbox is always open and I'm looking forward to meeting all of you!

AJ

2nd time founder / Former head of ML at an AI startup (Hirefly) Build AI for eCommerce brands

Charlie

Currently building Pulley to streamline construction permitting. Previously a founder, PM, and engineer at eero, Oasis Labs, and Amazon. Passionate about software, cities, and solving messy infrastructure problems.

Rhys

Building something to help farmers and ranchers implement regenerative agriculture. Former synbio PhD, founder, hedge fund associate, and eng leader

Phil

Co-founder of Baseten, building infrastructure to deploy and serve machine learning models in production. Previously co-founded Shape (acquired by Reflektive) and worked on ML at Gumroad. Holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Sydney.

Franck

Engineering leader with deep expertise in Web3 and large scale infrastructure. - VP of eng. at a DeFi crypto startup (Origin Protocol). Built smart contracts handling hundreds of millions of dollars. - Built search infra from ground up at Dropbox pre-IPO as tech lead. - Founded and managed the team that built the first Content ID system at YouTube pre Google acquisition. - Early engineer at PayPal, TLM for the Merchant facing engineering team

Thomas

Neurotech / BCI. Working with Anthony Kirilov and Nicole Dobreva :) Prev: co-founded Chai, quant trading/gambling, astro at Cambridge.

Adam

I'm excited about manufacturing (CAD, robotics, etc), and new ways of building backend services. Previously at Facebook, Oculus, and a startup building radiology software. Lives with my wife and 3 kids in Piedmont, CA.