Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

Marco

Marco began his career in academia, earning a PhD in CS at ETH Zurich before moving to Berkeley for his postdoc. From there, he became an early engineer at Pure Storage and other startups before transitioning into engineering leadership, most recently serving as VP of Engineering at Robust Intelligence. He also spent time working on incubations with Sutter Hill Ventures, giving him deep experience across the entire company-building lifecycle, from ideation to scale.

Ankit

Builder. - liked to paint as a kid - worked on racecars and did standup comedy as a fresher in IIT - started off joining early YC-backed teams - found love in tinkering with tech to solve problems - failed building a company in final year of undegrad - moved to the Bay during masters at CMU - picked up on AI wave - building B2B SaaS startup with friends from college

Samantha

Samantha is a software engineer with previous experience in fintech & AI. She is currently working on projects in the crypto space.

Josh

Josh is a Member of the Technical Staff at OpenAI, where he leads research on agentic products. Previously co-founded Gantry to help teams improve ML products with human feedback, and has held research and teaching roles at OpenAI and UC Berkeley. He also co-organizes Full Stack Deep Learning.

Wenlong

Built controllers for various types of humanoid robots

Zain

Engineer, AI researcher, designer, some hardware stuff too.

Waseem

I'm a cofounder of Pilot, a modern finance team offering the best bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for growing businesses. I'm an engineer by background and have cofounded and sold a couple of companies with friends I met while studying at MIT. In 2011, Ksplice was acquired by Oracle, and Zulip was acquired by Dropbox in 2014.

Chris

Previously co-founder of a fitness CV company that sold to Peloton. Currently exploring startup ideas in the generative AI space.

Rishi

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

Amjad

Amjad Masad is the CEO and co-founder of Replit, an online coding platform that aims to make coding more accessible and social.