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Members

Sonia Joseph’s Plan to Find the Answer to Everything

How one SPC member hopes to use AI to answer the most fundamental questions of existence.

Speaker Events

Sal Khan's Fireside Chat from the SPC Archive

Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, shared his founder story and approach to radically innovating in education.

Speaker Events

AI Summarizes Holden Karnofsky's Fireside Chat with SPC

We asked AI to give us the TLDR of Holden's recent talk with SPC. We still needed a human.

Social Impact

SPC-Agency Fund Social Impact Fellowship 2

$70k grant, SPC membership, and direct mentorship for early-stage social entrepreneurs.

Speaker Events

Mike Krieger's Fireside Chat from the SPC Archive

Mike Krieger, co-founder and former CTO of Instagram, joined us for a conversation shortly after leaving the social media giant he helped build.

Speaker Events

Dennis Woodside's Fireside Chat at SPC

The President of Impossible Foods shared insights about the future of food and working in an analog industry after a long career at technology companies like Google and Dropbox.

Members

The Impatient Patience of Victor Hunt

SPC member Victor Hunt shared how he embraces one of our community's core principles: go slow to go fast.

Founder Fellowship

SPC Founder Fellowship Cohort 4

$400k for 7%, pre-idea, for founders exploring any venture-scale opportunity.

Speaker Events

Announcing the New American Frontier Speaker Series

A new speakers series, open to the public, exploring the intersection between government & tech—and the industries that will shape the future.

Web3

NFT NYC at SPC NYC

Celebrating the builders, projects, and community events from NFTNYC.

Demo

Check Out Projects From SPC Demo Faire, Impact Edition!

Our Social Impact Fellows got the chance to show off how they're helping people exert more agency over their lives.

Venture Capital

SPC Founder Ruchi Sanghvi on the 20VC Podcast

SPC's founding member shared her journey to becoming an investor, SPC's approach to helping founders, -1 to 0, and more.

Speaker Events

Operating in the Changing Startup Environment with Elad Gil & David Sacks

Two legendary company builders and investors share what founders need to know to navigate a market downturn.

Speaker Events

David Ebersman's Fireside Chat with South Park Commons

David Ebersman, co-founder & CEO of Lyra Health, joined us for a conversation on founding a mental health startup.

Members

How Serendipity Found Ryan Olf

How did SPC impact the life trajectory of this physics PhD & biomedical engineer?

Community

Announcing SPC NYC

SPC is opening a New York City space and launching an IRL Events Series to celebrate—read on to find out more!

Speaker Events

From the Archive: Chris Cox’s Fireside Chat at SPC

Chris Cox, CPO of Meta, joined us for a conversation during a period when he had stepped away from Facebook and found himself in -1 to 0.

Venture Capital

Li Jin’s Fireside Chat with South Park Commons

Li Jin, general partner at Variant Fund, joined us for the second time to discuss her perspectives on web3, DAOs, investing, the creator economy, and more.

Demo

SPC Demo Faire Spring 2022 Recap

Check out the amazing projects shared at SPC Demo Faire Spring 2022!

Startups

Conviction And Certainty Are Not The Same: A Case Study of Orb

How one of the first teams to graduate from the SPC Founder Fellowship learned to pursue conviction instead of certainty.

Community

What SPC Looks For in Applicants

How we evaluate potential members of the SPC community—it's all about velocity and acceleration.

Founder Fellowship

SPC-Script web3 Founder Fellowship

$400k in funding, pre-idea, for web3 founders.

SPC Fund

Innovating Upstream of the Venture Industry

SPC innovates in the venture space by focusing on -1 to 0.

SPC Fund

Early Results from SPC Fund I

Early results and learnings from SPC Fund I have us more confident than ever in the SPC model .

SPC Fund

Why SPC Invested in Meesho

Submitted by Bala Chandrasekaran Now that the SPC Fund has branched out into later-stage investing along with our regular early-stage motion, we thought it would be fun to publish some of our thinking on those investments. We’re excited to share this memo from fund chief of staff Bala Chandrasekaran