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Pierre

Hi, I’m Pierre Ettori, a seasoned technology leader with 15+ years of experience building and scaling Cloud and SaaS products. I’ve led product and go-to-market efforts at companies like Google and Temporal, and I was the CEO and co-founder of Styra, creators of the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project. I was also part of Nicira’s journey to acquisition by VMware. As a former professional athlete turned tech leader, I bring energy, focus, and a passion for helping businesses adopt transformative technologies to build better products, faster.

Michael

Engineer in NYC, formerly @ Stripe, Google, Tumblr

Vartika

Keen interest and experience in scaling technology enabled businesses with global impact that fundamentally change human experiences. Strong suit: 0 to 1, new business or geography launch, scale up journeys. + built two ventures - B2C community commerce platform and a B2B Global product exited to a global SaaS co. + launched and scaled business verticals at Uber Eats and OYO + built solar projects in Asia and Africa as first Indian employee of global leader Stanford GSB and IIT Bombay grad.

Remi

Remi is currently a web3 founder fellow at SPC. Previously, Remi worked as a software engineer at Google and Microsoft, was the founding member of a Defi protocol (Parallel Finance - raised seed and Series A), and has a complementary background in product management and venture capital.

Brent

Brent is an investor and advisor to data startups. Previously he co-founded SafeGraph and helped the company grow to over $20M ARR. Brent was also on the founding team of Siftery (acquired by G2Crowd) and early team of LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP). He holds B.S. in MS&E and M.B.A. from Stanford University.

Abhishek

Born in Delhi. Moved to the US to study systems at Carnegie Mellon. Worked at Microsoft -> Google -> Replit. My expertise lies at the intersection of Distributed Systems and Operating Systems. Exploring Linux Sandboxing for AI Agents.

John

Machine learning researcher and quant trader. My professional work and academic research focuses on building robust and reliable machine learning systems. Previously built businesses in electricity markets. Once distracted by crypto. UC Berkeley PhD in machine learning. Stanford CS/EE degrees.

Kalvin

I’m a software engineer interesting in applying SV’s optimism and maker mindset to an especially challenging question: can we build software that helps people feel like they have enough and are enough, instead of amplifying and exploiting our fears of never enough?

Abhishek

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

Winston

I like building