Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

William

Currently exploring the intersection of generative audio and artists rights. Previously, I helped build Woven Science, an evergreen fund and venture studio supporting a portfolio of 25 mental health companies. xGoogle, xFulbright. Before that spent too much time at Google. I enjoy working in spaces between art and science, and spend spare time reading, writing, surfing, and skiing.

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.

Priyaa

Previously, built design AI products at Microsoft and Snap; most recently was at Waymo. Also, a contributor to India Stack, developing technical policy frameworks for AI regulation. Currently, exploring AI agents for video creation.

Dhawal

Successful entrepreneur with background in eCommerce, AR, & Ad-Tech. Previously, I co-founded a venture backed startup that resulted in a successful exit to Walmart. I can help on go-to-market plans as well as product-market fit problems

Max

Tool maker, game dev, and teacher. Now: Websim, Past at Sentry, Google Fuchsia,

James

Founder exploring new ideas in un-sexy spaces.

Gabor

3x startup founder with exits to Google and Twitter. Formerly: Director for consumer product incubator at Google, PM, and SWE. Things I like: Vercel, Supabase, PyTorch, Next.js (with reservations), and contributing to AI cookbooks on Github.

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.

Kevin

Studied CS @ UWaterloo, learned to be a SWE. Spent past 5 years as a PM. Marketplace PM @ Lime (scooters, Series A -> D), then founding PM @ Kikoff (fintech, Seed -> Series B). Working to make the world more abundant with tools that give humans leverage.

David

Exploring travel community ideas. Mint.com VP Engineering; Co-founder/CTO algorithmic trading hedge fund (10yrs); PGP (encryption startup); several other startups.. From NJ; Moved west for Stanford (CompSci) and stayed in SF.