Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

Christopher

Chris is an entrepreneur and engineer from Waterloo, Canada. With a background in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Chris has worked at several companies doing software, firmware, neurotechnology research, and machine learning.

Kunal

Kunal is a Senior Engineering Manager at Coinbase, leading Base Ads and the development of onchain growth protocols. Previously co-founded Spindl (acquired by Coinbase), and held engineering leadership roles at Airbnb and Facebook.

Simon

Simon is a founder (technical and GTM) exploring a few ideas in applying AI/LLMs to future-of-work and traveltech. Ex-Peloton (80th employee), Palantir, and Stanford CS. More about him in his Cofounder memo (https://bit.ly/cfmemo)

Stehl

I was employee <10 at Writer.com and most recently spent ~6 years at VaynerX (Gary Vee's holding company). I'm currently building Quinn, a relationship intelligence platform. Econ @Columbia. Hobbies: Brazilian jiu-jitsu, fishing, hosting dinner parties

Jackson

Founding CEO of Mentor Collective (edtech). Led company to 100s of customers and 4x listings on Inc 5000. Stepped into Chairman role after 10 years and now exploring new ventures.

Gustav

Data Scientist going into climate. Swede in California.

Vinayak

I am a scientist by training so I like to ask lot of questions and I am a fan from first principles thinking. I loved programming since I was 5 and have built algorithms and systems working collaboratively with biologist, chemist, scientists and automation engineers to reliably scale measurement of biological systems (mostly human DNA) and predicting propensity for disease. Outside work, I love the outdoors and playing and following team sports.

Matt

Matt is working full-time on starting a climate-tech company. Previously, he was Head of Engineering at Studio and an ML Scientist at Tesla Autopilot. He spends his free time playing music, skateboarding, and nerding out about space travel and TTRPGs.

Andrew

I grew up in San Diego and studied CS at Brown. I dropped out to be an early engineer at Snackpass (YC, a16z, Craft) and built out our marketplace infra that scaled from $100k's a year to $120M+ today. I am passionate about DeFi and creating globally inclusive financial products.

Deon

Deon is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Forethought, the leading generative AI platform for customer support automation. Previously served as CEO, scaling the company over seven years. An early engineer at Pure Storage and Dropbox, he brings deep technical expertise to building AI-first enterprise products.