Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

Marc

Advising AI startup founding teams. Standing up an IB focused exclusively on AI, frontier & deep tech. Co-founder & CEO of General Magic, an Apple spin-off credited with creating the smartphone. Also a satellite company, climate & cleantech.

Sashank

Language Modeling Scientist @ Apple; Previously studied at Georgia Tech & IIT Bombay. Love to go deep on food, coffee, & AI.

Ang

I am a startup founder in artificial intelligence, with a variety of research and product experiences on autonomous driving, videos, cameras, maps, advertisements, etc. My research aims at building lifelong autonomous agents. Previously, I worked at Google DeepMind, Baidu Apollo, Facebook AI Research, CMU Robotics, Apple, Google Streetview, and Comcast Labs DC. I received my Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland College Park. My PhD thesis is spatial perception from visual and linguisitc information.

Sanjay

I like playing basketball and poker. Talk to me about hiring contractors / consultants for your startup.

Ben

Co-founder & CTO of Mesa. Prev: YC S24, Census, Microsoft

Sumit

Sumit is the co-founder of DoubleLoop.

Yuran

Worked on the desktop client at Dropbox for a few years. Before that, co-founder of ZeroMailer, acquired by Dropbox. Before that, professional gambler. Now working on building System2.

Ram

Working on intersection of Hardware x AI. Co-Founder Plate IQ ( YC S15 ) and Automatic Labs ( YC S15 ). I can speak about amortization to both engineers and accountants!

Tarin

I am working on tackling robotics and AI by throwing out almost all of the existing paradigms. Instead, I want to develop and refine ideas around artificial life, virtual biology, etc. This will draw heavily on simulations, and biological principles. Furthermore, I am seeking to stand up a new type of organization to do this, a cross between a venture-studio, research-lab, and a traditional start-up. Bio: Angel investor and technologist, 20+ years of experience, Apple (Autonomous Vehicles), CTO @ Voyage (Autonomous Vehicles, acquired by Cruise), Director R&D @ CTRL-Labs, (Brain Machine Interfaces, acquired by Meta), US Army Research Labs / Naval Underwater Warfare Center / RADAR/SONAR imaging and autonomous systems / Neurosys computational neuroscience. (BSEE @ GMU 2004 / MSEE @ George Washington University 2007)

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.