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(0128) eleven early stage founders - ex-meta and quants

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Oct 24, 2025
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Early Stage Founders

  • Pascal Tuan (San Diego)

    • PhD in ML & NLP from UCSB, previously research intern at Meta, now founder of Orchat AI working on chatbots and sequence generation.

    • Twitter / LinkedIn

  • Adi Sharma (San Francisco)

    • Engineer at Affirm for 2 years, now building something new in stealth mode. Also created content at Socratica on the side.

    • LinkedIn

  • Ari Posner

    • CEO at a stealth startup, currently serving as a Venture Scout at Andreessen Horowitz and Angel Investor at 181 Angels.

    • LinkedIn

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