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A community of technologists dedicated to helping each other explore, learn, and go from -1 to 0.
Joined September 2016
Announcing SPC Fund III: $275M to help the most talented founders find their life's work. Our latest fund is an overwhelming vote of confidence in the founders who choose to go from -1 to 0 at SPC.
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We don't have requests for startups—we have requests for curiosity. Here are the most interesting questions we're exploring right now.
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SPC is a bit like a university. It's a collegial environment for people exploring and discovering new ideas. Most of us are also builders: we are passionate about creating new technologies and platforms with potential for scale and positive impact.
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1/ Thrilled to open applications for our 3rd Founder Fellowship cohort—$400k in funding pre-idea. But this time, with our friends @ScriptCapital, @mvernal from @sequoia, @zoink, @ljin18, and @multicoincap, we're going all-in on web3.
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gm. This weekend we’re hosting a web3 hackathon with @ElectricCapital & @harmonyprotocol. 30 builders in our SF space. 50 joining remotely. Should be fun. @avichal @lijiang2087
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1/ In our weekly #FounderFellowship workshop, each team took <2s min to write a haiku about their founder journey. We weren't strict about syllable count. Enjoy:.
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11 teams showcased live demos (no slide shows allowed) at our Winter Demo Faire last week. Check out what these incredible founders are working on 🔽
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TFW you're working on something new and the circle of people who know has started to grow a little bit before growing a lot— . That's a fun feeling.
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"The team you build is the company you build.". Thanks @vkhosla for joining us today at SPC!
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1/ We've all felt the pace of technological change pick up recently. That shift signals opportunity. It's the best time to build in a generation, and we're thrilled to open applications for the next $400k Founder Fellowship to help you do it. 🧵on how:
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🚨Founder Fellowship Summer ’21 applications OPEN🚨. $400k PRE-IDEA to validate a market, get bespoke mentorship, and learn from the SPC community. Apply by June 23rd. FAQ here:
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We are thrilled to announce @msanvido has joined the South Park Commons team as a Visiting Partner! Marco's impressive career as an engineering leader and advisor will be invaluable to the overwhelmingly technical membership at SPC. Marco has spent over 20 years in the tech
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11/ @newcomputer .@sjwhitmore & @jasonyuandesign from New Computer revealed Lorekeeper, a socially-adept AI that learns about and connects the community that uses it. Who should meet? Who has the gossip? What’s tactful to share? More soon!
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You can just do things
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Bangalore! @southpkcommons is coming to town. Join @binnybansal @rsanghvi @adityaag at our launch event on Thurs. June 13. If you're a founder, engineer, researcher, investor. Excited about the future of AI. Ready to go from -1 to 0. Spread the word & RSVP below!
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🚨🚨Founder Fellowship Cohort 4 applications now open!. The startup environment has changed. Our terms haven't. $400k for 7% pre-idea. Open to founders exploring any venture-scale opportunity (but with 3 areas we're emphasizing—read on for more).
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🚨 We're hiring! 🚨. We are looking for a rockstar Chief of Staff for our General Partners, based in San Francisco. You’ll have an incredible opportunity to work hand-in-hand with the GPs on both the community and the SPC fund to inflect the next generation of great companies.
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How far will Claude go? What can you create with the latest @AnthropicAI models? We're excited to announce the agent-focused SPC-Anthropic hackathon the weekend of April 11th in San Francisco!
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🚨 If you want to participate in the SPC-OpenAI Hackathon and attend the kickoff event next week with @sama, apply by Friday, Feb 23rd!. Registration link in the next post ⬇️
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We're excited to announce the New American Frontier (NAF) Speaker Series!. NAF focuses on industries that will have outsized impact on the future, like energy, space, housing, defense, climate, & more. And we're opening the series up to the public.
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This week, in front of a packed audience, 10 SPC teams gave us a master class in why demos > slides. We were thrilled to officially open our new NYC community space with this celebration of SPC's builder culture. Check out the demos below! 🧵
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Last week, @eladgil & @DavidSacks joined us at SPC-SF for a frank conversation on what's happening in the startup fundraising market and how founders should respond. David's presentation & Elad's Q&A offered clear tactical advice🧵
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1/ When we first announced the web3 Founder Fellowship, we included a teaser of some of the all-star contributors who would join the DAO to help fellows. With the cohort now set, we're excited to share who the rest of the DAO members will be. 🧵.
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Last week 11 SPC companies wowed us with their latest demos at our Summer Demo Faire. Demo Faire is different—live demos only, with minimal slides for context. Show instead of tell. This was a phenomenally talented group. Check out what they showed us! 👇
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"With AI, curiosity and critical thinking and confidence are still going to remain at a premium.". What will you do with the coming wave of intelligence?. Thanks for joining us today at SPC @satyanadella!
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So the market is down, and capital is drying up, and fundraising is harder—. What should founders actually *do*?. @eladgil will interview @DavidSacks at SPC-SF tomorrow to give their takes on that question. We're looking forward to it!.
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🚨 Time's almost up to register for our emergency hack with @LumaLabsAI. The Dream Machine API just launched and we need to see what it can do. Compete on Saturday for cash, credits, and a chance to pitch the Luma CEO!
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How do you generate and validate startup ideas?. How do you go from -1 to 0?. The best founders approach ideation as worldbuilders, not just problem solvers. Worldbuilding is not a rhetorical device—it’s a tactical response to the problem of venture scale. The common joke about
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Our founding member @rsanghvi spoke with @anuraggoel, early SPC member and founder and CEO of @render, ahead of Render's $20M Series A announcement, about the role the community played in Anurag's founder journey.
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Hiring engineers is one of the toughest challenges startups face. SPC Fund general partner @adityaag drew on his experience hiring at Facebook, Dropbox, and working with ~200 startups at SPC to write about the most important ANTI-patterns to avoid.
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What it's like to start a company. This is -1 to 0.
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1/ One of the SPC Fund's first later-stage investments was in Indian e-commerce company @Meesho_Official. Fund chief of staff @bchandras3karan wrote about why we decided to invest. 👇 @viditaatrey .
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“The most terrifying thing in startups is you might already be dead but not find out for three years.”. @alexandr_wang on building @scale_AI way past the three year mark.
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We're excited to announce the SPC-Agency Fund Social Impact Fellowship. If you're a technologist, researcher, or scientist looking to empower low income people using technology, we want to hear from you!.
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Founder Fellowship interviews start today. Apply soon.
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Does a CTO/VPE candidate need to ace the coding interview? Should engineering leaders also be excellent engineers?. SPC partner @adityaag shares why his answer is a definite yes.
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Applications are open for the Fall 2024 Founder Fellowship! If you have the ambition to build a venture-scale company, apply by August 9th for:. 💵 $1M in funding.🤝 Bespoke support from SPC Partners.👥 Lifetime membership in the most talent-dense community in tech
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🚨Calling all worldbuilders🚨. Applications are open for the Spring 2024 Founder Fellowship!. 💰$1M in funding.🤝Bespoke support from SPC partners in a small cohort. 🚀SPC community membership, office space & more. More info at the link ⬇️.
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1/ Weave .The future of online clothes shopping is simulation. Jeff & Karen showed how advanced physics simulation makes size guessing obsolete. With Weave, customers see exactly how clothes fit, move, and interact in high fidelity.
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Members ➡️ Co-founders ➡️ Founder Fellowship ➡️ 🚀.
Exited to share that @tryprofound is out of stealth and has raised $3.5M from @rabois (@khoslaventures), @maxaltman, @braveben, @itsthomson (@Saga_Ventures) @southpkcommons (ft @ditzikow!), @scottbelsky and @balajis. Ty to @TechCrunch & @rebecca_szkutak .
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The SPC-@AIatMeta Llamathon kicks off this evening! Teams are competing for over $50k in prizes, judged by @meta's @Ahmad_Al_Dahle, SPC Partner @adityaag, @basetenco CEO @tuhinone, and @newcomputer CEO @sjwhitmore. Final demos are open to the public, join us on Sunday!
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Recently we had the privilege of hosting @binnybansal, Co-founder of @Flipkart, for a conversation on the future of tech in India. Today we’re excited to share a recording of the talk!. We’re even more excited to have Binny join us for the SPC-India kickoff in two weeks.
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2022 seems likely to be remembered as the year AI products started to catch up to AI hype. So it was no surprise when SPC members went all-in on our recent AI/LLM Hackathon. Our remarkable members managed to exceed already lofty expectations. Check out their project demos 🧵
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To say we're pretty excited about tomorrow's guest might be an understatement. @Microsoft CEO @satyanadella will join @adityaag & @rsanghvi on the SPC stage–we can't wait for this one!
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To all the builders, hackers, and tinkerers toiling away on a Monday night to make something that doesn’t yet exist, we salute you.
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Today we're excited to announce our newest experiment in helping talented technologists navigate -1 to 0: the $25k SPC Community Grant. Think of it as funding to work on your side project in the SPC community. Here's what we're looking to support 👇.
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Few founders operate at Bhavish Aggarwal’s scale. @OlaElectric redefined mobility, expanded into EVs and AI, and is now taking another shot at food delivery. He breaks down his mental models, lessons from failure, and why deep-tech is India’s next big frontier. Watch the full
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It's true! Zuck is coming to SPC for a rare IRL talk moderated by @rsanghvi. The best way to guarantee a spot? Apply for SPC membership!. The next best way? Keep an eye out for news about an upcoming builder event—participants will also get to join the talk. 🦙
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Last weekend, 100+ excited builders came together for the SPC Blockchain Hackathon to transform from web2 engineers into web3 builders of tomorrow. With incredible support from @ElectricCapital & @HarmonyProtocol the teams produced 12 great projects & hundreds of connections!🧵👇
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🚨Founder Fellowship Fall '23 applications are open!. We're more confident than ever that targeted support in -1 to 0 gives founders the best chance at success. So we're doubling down with $1M in funding for pre-idea founders. [1/6]
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SPC was originally inspired by Benjamin Franklin's Junto Club. We're excited to see @StevenLevy write about our community's history for @WIRED!
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The deadline to apply for Founder Fellowship Spring 2024 is TODAY. Don't miss out on the best way to start a world-changing company:. 💰 $1M in funding.🤝 Partner support in -1 to 0.🚀 SPC community membership. Apply by midnight PT!
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Economist @tylercowen joined us on Minus One to talk:. -Finding & investing in talent.-Why immigration is key to economic dynamism.-Which (human) skills become more important as AI rapidly improves. -and a lot more. Check it out! ⬇️
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If you applied for the Founder Fellowship, please be patient—we received double the previous record for applications! Our team is working through the weekend to closely review each one.
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Founder Fellowship applications close this week!. If you're in the early-stage startup squiggle, building conviction in an idea, and want to give yourself the best chance of success—. Apply by 11:59pm PT on Friday, Aug 11th! ⬇️.
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🚨Founder Fellowship applications close today🚨. Submit your application by 11:59pm PT 🚀. Apply link & FAQ in the next post ⬇️
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Apply now for the SPC Founder Fellowship!.- $400k for 7% even if you're pre-idea.- Membership in the SPC community.- Mentorship by SPC partners in a small cohort. Rolling interviews mean the application will close as soon as the cohort fills. Don't wait!
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If you're exploring any of these questions, reach out to the SPC team—or, better yet, apply to SPC for membership.
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SPC Founder Fellowship applications are open!. Here are answers to the most frequently asked questions, in beautiful, classic, sub-4000 character 🧵thread format🧵
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SPC alum @ScottWu46 returns for a Minus One talk moderated by @adityaag, on how and why he decided to build an AI software engineer at @cognition_labs.
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The GRAND PRIZE winner was AI in Spreadsheets, by @hansonwng and Ethan Carlson. Imagine being able to clean data like a human would, unbound by the rigid logic of spreadsheets. Now watch it actually happen. It's impressive.
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"-1 to 0 is as much an introspective exercise as a market exercise. The only way you power through company building is because it's not about the money, your ego, validation from other people. It's just who you are."
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Our first Request for Curiosity featured questions the SPC team is puzzling over. The second comes straight from SPC members. Questions SPC members are exploring:
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Be honest, who’s still building something cool on this Friday night?.
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Every ambitious endeavor begins as an idea. Every technical achievement was first a hypothesis. Every great company starts in -1 to 0. To explore this critical stage and how it impacts everything that comes after, we are excited to announce the -1 to Now Speaker Series. We’ll
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Only 1 week left to apply for the Founder Fellowship!. Deadline is March 24th for the best way through -1 to 0 for worldbuilders who want to start a company. 💰$1M in funding .🤝Bespoke support from SPC partners.🚀SPC community membership
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How it started: How it ended:
Behold! The winners of the @southpkcommons x @OpenAI Hackathon!. Over 40 teams spent 45 hours last weekend hacking together these and many more impressive projects. Thanks again to our judges @snsf, Irina Kofman, @mvernal, @arnaudai, & @finn_meeks! 🧵
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The EV magic happening in Tamil Nadu blew us away🇮🇳@OlaElectric 's Futurefactory & Gigafactory are redefining EV production. The scale + precision is audacious - a revolution in the making. Their Battery Innovation Center has bigger breakthroughs ahead. @bhash is turning a dream
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Founder Fellows @pritopian & @purvanshi_mehta had the audience muttering "wow" by transforming a recent @ylecun talk into a variety of new media—including a Gen-Z podcast—with @world_lica, the universal canvas to create and consume content in any form. Try at
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After more than 100 hours of application review, interviews, & deliberation, SPC and @AgencyFund have selected the inaugural cohort of the Social Impact Fellowship! Read on for a sneak-peak of what these amazing social innovators are joining us to explore.
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We're very excited for our upcoming speaker events, featuring some of the most impactful founders, investors, and leaders in tech. If you're thinking about starting a company, entering the idea maze, or simply want to learn something new from the best, check out who's coming to
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2/ Here are the highlights:. - $400k for 7% pre-idea.- web3-focused cohort.- Structured as a DAO.- All-star braintrust.
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🚨The Fall 2024 Founder Fellowship application closes TOMORROW, August 9th!🚨. Apply with or without an idea for the only truly pre-idea startup program, with $1M funding, bespoke support from SPC partners, and membership in the most talent-dense community in tech.
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Thanks to all the SPC members and friends who joined us this last weekend for our annual summer BBQ! We're so grateful to have all of you in the community and can't wait to see you all again soon.
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Thank you to all 1100 applicants to the SPC Founder Fellowship Summer '21 cohort! We're thrilled to start reviewing your applications. In the meantime, the SPC community is always looking for technologists and tinkerers exploring what's next.
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We're keeping up the breakneck AI pace with another excellent event in SF:. On Wed. March 13th, founder & investor @danielgross will join us for a fireside chat on the future of AI. RSVP in the next post if you'd like to join⬇️
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Finalist team DataCanvas, made up of @TopraniChirag, Kevin Cheiran, and Richard Kennedy, lets people build stateful apps with AI backed by any data source. Create anything you can imagine within a few seconds, backed by real data.
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Up next in our Member Spotlight series is @nseldeib. Nadia joined SPC as part of the inaugural Founder Fellowship and has been an active leader in the community ever since.
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We're closing applications for Founder Fellowship cohort 4 in ONE WEEK!. If you're a builder with the ambition to found a venture-scale company, we want to hear from you. $400k funding, small cohort, SPC membership, & bespoke mentorship from SPC Partners.
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Demos > slides! . We take the name of SPC Demo Faire seriously. Every presenter at the December 2023 event showed off live demos and products. Here's a recap thread. Follow the builders!
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SPC India officially kicked off yesterday in Bengaluru. Hundreds of talented founders, builders, and technologists joined @rsanghvi @adityaag & @binnybansal to celebrate the -1 to 0 approach coming to India. This is just the beginning. Stay tuned!
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