Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

Michael

Former startup CTO, first technical hire through Series B at NCX. Interested in: LLM interfaces, evolution of Vertical SaaS, forestry, remote sensing. holkesvik.com

Jingwei

Building withpanorama.com. Formerly Staff Eng / TLM @ Lyft, Cash App. Spent thousands of hours reading, researching, and applying practices on group dynamics and individual psychology. Meditate a lot. Based in SF, sometimes in LA.

Nick

Co-founder at ROSNIK AI, working on improving the experience of human in the loop AI systems. Previously, built software to scale Modern Health and Optimizely. Happy to chat about all things startups, software engineering, distributed systems, mental health, and food.

Nirmal

Currently exploring AI & marketplaces. Nirmal was formerly an ML engineer at Abnormal Security, where he developed ML systems to detect account takeover attacks at scale. He graduated with a CS degree from Northwestern in 2021.

Hamza

Working on potrerolabs.xyz, a start-up to empower creators and their communities. Previously engineering at Facebook. Love to go skiing, camping and do other outdoor shenanigans.

Vaibhav

Co-founder at SurgeGrowth, developing a monetization co-pilot for subscription-based softwares. Formerly a Product Manager at Epic, the world's largest digital reading platform for kids.

Andrew

TLDR: - Previously Founder & CEO of Nova (acq. by Handshake) - Led generative AI products at Handshake - Write the TLDR AI & Founders newsletters (1M subs total - tldr.tech/ai) - Background in AI research, product, engineering, data, and investing from Google AI, Citadel, AQR, Sequoia, Branch - Angel investor in Anthropic, Pika, Mercury, Replit, Alchemy, Uniswap, Runway ML, Varda Space, Pinecone, Coframe, MultiOn, Decagon, Gumloop, Haize Labs, Mercor, Goodfire AI, Etched, and many more - Undergrad at UC Berkeley (CS & Stats), grad school at Stanford (AI) Love sports (basketball, tennis, golf, triathlon, weightlifting), puzzles & strategy games, cooking, history, and traveling. But most importantly, I love meeting, learning from, and working with amazing people.

Ross

I’m currently exploring human-in-the-loop AI systems at ROSNIK AI with my longtime friend Nick DiRienzo. In my prior life, I was Head of Product at Observe Inc and a PM at Splunk. In my spare time, you will find me brewing beer, riding my bike, and reading any sci-fi I can get my hands on.

Vivek

Vivek has been an AI researcher at Google, working on applied AI problems in healthcare. Earlier, he worked at Facebook AI research on multimodal assistant systems.

Justin

Exploring the intersection of healthcare, bio and technology. Enjoys running on trails. Previously @color and @twitter eng