(0012) devtools, side projects, and young founders

Dec 06, 2024

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People

Simon Guo
- First-year CS PhD student at Stanford with internships at Cohere, Apple, Anyscale, and NVIDIA. He’s also been involved in startup-focused programs like Accel Scholars and HAX.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Connor Turland
- Co-founder of Ceedar, a bootstrapped startup providing AI-powered accounting for the last year. Previous founding experience. Unclear if intending to raise.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Simon Farshid
- Currently building Assistant UI, devtools for building advanced chatbots. Prior founding (and founder-in-residence) and freelance experience.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Nelson Lee
- Software engineer at Shopify while working on Haven Safe, an app helping students communicate during emergencies. Previously a Next 36 and 8VC fellow.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Ryan Sproule
- Ex-Amazon and ex-crypto engineer now founding a company to improve incentives for open source software development. Unclear if needs funding.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Aidan Guo
- 18yr old building AI companions for the elderly at Pluma. A couple of prior startups already and Z Fellows program participant.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Ker Lee Yap
- Ex-Uber and Ex-Intuit engineer with prior startup experience went through South Park Commons last year and was a Founder-in-Residence at Spark Capital until recently. Now on sabbatical.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Moksha
- Ex-PM and ex-VC working on a new project in stealth for the last year.
- Twitter / LinkedIn

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