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Community

How to Apply for the SPC Community Grant

$25,000 to work on your side project at SPC, open to anyone applying for community membership.

Members

Who Should Join SPC?

The member archetypes that benefit most from joining SPC—and when they should apply.

AI

The Near Future of AI is Action-Driven

Exploring the astonishing near-term potential of Large Language Models.

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

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.

Engineering

Your CTO Should Actually Be Technical

Why engineering leaders also need to be great engineers.

Investing

Open Source Investing: Why SPC Backed Replit

Vision, leadership, and differentiation leave Replit well-positioned to onboard the next billion software developers.

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

AI Eats Everything: Founder Fellowship 4 Edition

As growth in the AI/ML market hits the S-curve, we're making it one of our main themes in Founder Fellowship 4.

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.

Founders

The Liberating Power of Default-Dead

The funding environment has changed, but the best course of action is not the same for all founders.

Founders

Why Conviction Matters

Four SPC founders share what it takes to build conviction and start a company.

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.

Operator

Your Success Is Not Your Own: What Matters Most As An Engineering Leader

The first and most important element of success is building a killer engineering team.

Members

How Serendipity Found Ryan Olf

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

Operator

Move Fast or Die: Key Startup Lessons

Lessons from Facebook, Dropbox, and SPC on the singular importance of speed.