Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

Ankit

Builder. - liked to paint as a kid - worked on racecars and did standup comedy as a fresher in IIT - started off joining early YC-backed teams - found love in tinkering with tech to solve problems - failed building a company in final year of undegrad - moved to the Bay during masters at CMU - picked up on AI wave - building B2B SaaS startup with friends from college

Phil

Co-founder of Baseten, building infrastructure to deploy and serve machine learning models in production. Previously co-founded Shape (acquired by Reflektive) and worked on ML at Gumroad. Holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Sydney.

Gabor

3x startup founder with exits to Google and Twitter. Formerly: Director for consumer product incubator at Google, PM, and SWE. Things I like: Vercel, Supabase, PyTorch, Next.js (with reservations), and contributing to AI cookbooks on Github.

Anurag

Anurag is the founder and CEO at Render (render.com), a modern cloud provider. He was previously the eighth employee and Head of Risk at Stripe.

Trisha

Trisha is the co-founder and CEO of Unit21. She was previously an early engineer at Affirm, and subsequently PM. She studied Computer Science at Penn. She loves to paint.

Vinay

Building the Next Ad Agency powered by AI Agents accessible to Thousands of Businesses.

Faraz

Faraz is a tech entrepreneur who previously founded two companies, including Screenhero, which sold to Slack. He's currently really into robotics.

Zachary

Hey, I’m Zach, helping sales teams, solutions engineers, and devtool builders share demos of their software with AI-enabled sandboxes called Portals. Previously at Microsoft AI.

Justin

Hey! I'm Justin. I'm an ML Engineer based in NYC. I've spent 7 years architecting large‑scale ML systems end to end and have ridden the startup roller‑coaster a few times. I'm originally from Canada, but spent most of my early years abroad in Asia.

Shannon

Looking for the main quest. Prev: Researcher on geopolitics of AI at GovAI and Oxford & before that: PM at Scale AI for autonomous vehicle data. Oxford MBA, Berkeley Development Econ & Data Science. Based in SF, often found in London and Shanghai.