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.

Hanson

Hanson is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, where he is an early member of the Codex team. Previously co-founded Arcwise, a low-code ML and analytics platform, and led ML infrastructure at Meta, where he built internal systems supporting millions of QPS.

Abishek

Abhishek is the co-founder and CEO of Material Security, where he previously served as CTO. Before that, he was an early product leader at Dropbox.

Michael

Michael Lai's six word story is “failed professional athlete, striving education entrepreneur.” He is currently building Tinycare, a network of micro daycares aiming to fix the childcare crisis. Previously, he built Promise, a nonprofit venture studio for early childhood development, Minerva Project, Google.org, and competed on Harvard's varsity golf team (where he was decidedly NOT the next Tiger Woods). His passion for education starts from the classroom — 6 years volunteer teaching preschool, elementary, and middle school.

William

Currently exploring the intersection of generative audio and artists rights. Previously, I helped build Woven Science, an evergreen fund and venture studio supporting a portfolio of 25 mental health companies. xGoogle, xFulbright. Before that spent too much time at Google. I enjoy working in spaces between art and science, and spend spare time reading, writing, surfing, and skiing.

Ben

Co-Founder, CEO at Transcend, the data infrastructure powering your privacy rights at your favorite brands. Formerly Computer Science at Harvard.

Sara

Previously, I managed product & engineering at Scale AI, where I worked on recommendations, trust & safety, data quality and image/video labeling. Before that, I worked at Facebook & Twitter, and studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon.

Michael

Founder of Plato. Build internal tools without coding.

Mel

Building the AI copilot for medication prior authorization. Previously Product at Canvas Medical and Design at IDEO.

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/