Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

Daanish

Born in Kashmir. Left at 16 to attend Stanford, where I had the good luck of learning from some of the world's great thinkers. Founded a hacker-artist collective and an edtech co. Now shaping my next adventure. Ping me about books or nn pretraining!

Aaron

LA > NY. Serial entrepreneur and product innovator. Founded Felt, a digital mental health company, scaling to 200K+ users and $10M ARR before successful exit. MBA from Kellogg. Expert in organic growth hacking, marketing and brand building. Loves a laugh.

Peter

I’m currently exploring web3. Previously I cofounded SBLY.com, a bootstrapped company that hit $90M in TR.

Rhys

Building something to help farmers and ranchers implement regenerative agriculture. Former synbio PhD, founder, hedge fund associate, and eng leader

Hamidah

I'm a research affiliate at the Topos Institute helping develop CatColab, a structured model editor. I'm interested in how we can meaningfully document and make sense of procedural knowledge (e.g., with Git). I'm also a non-resident fellow at IFP where I focus on high-skilled immigration policy.

Dakota

Lifelong Midwesterner, currently living in Kansas City along with the wife and two pets (dog-Sunny, cat-Kit Cat). I'm passionate about building solutions with outcomes of healthier communities and people, which is what has led me to working in an endeavor that's aimed at helping to drive adoption of regenerative agriculture. (check out Rooted Ag) Beyond work, I love spending time in nature and observing, making warm connections with people, and listening to good music.

Rajat

Merging game marketing with AI. Built and scaled B2B SaaS in manufacturing to $200M (Tiger Global, Alphawave). Bootstrapped a land records solution for financial institutions. Believe business success comes from deeply understanding customers, not just acquiring them. IIT Bombay, IIM Ahmedabad alumnus. Always learning and sometimes earning.

Zo

Liberal arts student turned AI engineer motivated about using technology to enable entrepreneurship. Spent ~3 years at Spotify working on generative audio and recommendation systems. Spent longer deciding on my favourite sushi. 🥢

Bao

Co-founder at Alpaca Health (SPC W'24) building the future of AI-Powered Autism Care. Previously built product at Instagram Reels, Facebook App, and was part of the Threads App launch. Duke Alum.

Guglielmo

Co-founder of the robotics simulation and software infrastructure company Adjoint, Inc. Previously, a mission planning visiting researcher at NASA/JPL, and Ph.D. candidate in aerospace engineering at Polytechnic of Turin.