(0002) students, early engineers, and repeat founders

Nov 13, 2024

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People

Rob Olsthoorn
- Ex-Nextdoor engineering, worked on Laguna (YC W20) and more recently on crypto (dOrg and Whatnot). Currently exploring various ideas, with interests in voice AI and the automotive industry.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Ryan Kaplan
- Early engineer at Figma (finished an 8yr run last summer) and Dropbox before that. Currently working on some projects like Do Browser (AI browser automation.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Aksh Garg
- Currently at Stanford but with internships at Tesla, SpaceX, DE Shaw, Point72, and Mercor. He’s done of few hackathons, which is likely why he’s on the radar of some VCs.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Namita R
- Software at Bosch, working on a news aggregator to fight against misinformation online.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Bernard Kolobara
- Ex-CERN and third time founder / YC alum currently building a software infrastructure platform Flawless.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Ziyan Wang
- PhD at the Cooperative AI Lab in London. Not many signals that he’s interested in startups, but he is on the radar of top VCs.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
John Busch
- Consulting and operations background, now building a book recommendations app Iliad.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Talor Anderson
- Replit engineer approaching his 3yr mark, working on AI agents. Not a ton of signals about startups, but he’s followed by some VCs and has worked on a number of 0-1 projects.
  - Twitter / LinkedIn

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