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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.

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 .

Startups

Startup Engineering Hiring Anti-Patterns

The most important traps to avoid when hiring startup engineers.

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

Startups

User Value as North Star: A Case Study of Column Tax

How the founders of Column Tax followed their north star through the SPC Founder Fellowship to a $5.1m seed round.

Startups

How to Take on Amazon, Google, and Microsoft: Start With Community

As Render announces its $20M Series A, founder and early SPC member Anurag Goel reflects on how he decided to take on the big 3.

Social Impact

Announcing the Inaugural Social Impact Fellowship Cohort

A preview of the 9 teams joining the inaugural Social Impact Fellowship to explore how to support the agency of people exposed to poverty and marginalization.

SPC Fund

Why SPC Invested: Atlys, Gamma, Dashworks, & Luma

A peak behind the curtain on why the SPC Fund invested in four recently-launched portfolio companies.

Builder Events

Recapping the SPC Crypto Hackathon

Check out the projects produced in the first SPC Crypto Hackathon!

Demo

Recapping SPC Demo Faire 2021

To celebrate SPC’s culture of building, we held a Demo Faire in September 2021. Here’s a recap of the impressive demos from members & alumni.

Social Impact

Announcing the SPC-Agency Fund Social Impact Fellowship

UPDATE: The application period for the SPC-Agency Fund Social Impact Fellowship is now closed. If you have submitted an application, we will review and follow up with next steps in late October. Thank you! About UsThis fellowship program provides early-stage support to innovators who are exploring problem spaces and conceiving

Founder Fellowship

SPC Founder Fellowship Summer ’21 Applications Open

Applications open for a summer cohort of the SPC Founder Fellowship. We’re more confident than ever we can help founders get from -1 to 0.