(0021) experienced leaders and new grads

Jan 03, 2025

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People

Chappy Asel
- Ex-Apple engineer with previous startups (an AI landing page generator, a workout app, and an AI-related community with 25k members) now working in stealth on a new project.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Duncan Graham
- Experienced designer (WaPo, MapBox, his own studio, and Head of Design at Modern Treasury) now “exploring” on his LinkedIn. One project is a physical meditation device called SuperBloom, but it isn’t clear if that’s his only project or not.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Luv Kothari
- This PM with extensive experience (Google/Coinbase/Scale) and prior founding experience is approaching his 2yr point as the VP Product at Scale. No specific signals he’s looking to found again except for VC follows on Twitter.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Pauline Wee
- Developer/designer and recent NYU grad currently working with HF0/ImpactLabs. Clear interest in founding, tons of side projects. Definitely someone to watch.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Viraj Bindra
- After spending 7yr at DoorDash in Product, took a sabbatical before founding Finch, a startup that helps plaintiffs automate pre-litigation.
- Twitter / LinkedIn

We curate interesting people that have some signals that they might be interesting founders either now or in the future. They are not guaranteed to be currently founding or interested in investment.
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