Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

Jonathan

I'm a founder and software engineer with previous experience in legal tech and consumer products. I've worked at Google, Cisco, and Walmart Labs. I also make music.

Omar

Always building. Previously engineering @ Alchemy, computer science @ Stanford (systems undergrad + AI masters dropout).

Ryan

Seasoned engineering leader: systems, data platform, MLOps, open source. Now focused on climate tech and decentralized social. Previously: NCX, Color, Quip, Google. More at https://snarfed.org/

Jack

Roboticist and quantitative trader. Led Skydio's Motion Planning & Controls Team before developing proprietary trading algorithms for electricity markets. Stanford CS/EE graduate.

Kenan

Outdoorsy backend Software Engineer focused on privacy and security. I have worked the last 3 years on Istio and cloud infrastructure.

Michael

Exploring B2B x AI. Founding engineer at Zip, led AI team until I left. Huge sports, fashion, and food fan!

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)

Shikhar

Unicorn founder, travel industry expert

Sergei

I am a passionate product leader, executive, and builder. Currently advising+coaching high-performing founding teams while building something new. I’m a former VP Product at Discord who scaled the platform from 5M to 150M+ users and built its Nitro business from 0 to $500M+ in revenue, with prior experience leading products across social, gaming, and messaging at companies including MessageMe, Yahoo and Lolapps.

Hailun

Helen led product design teams at Facebook and Cruise and specialized in designing consumer and business products. She is exploring new ideas with her co-founder.