If you want to find a co-founder:
- join a startup with a lot of talented people
- work really hard
- notice who else works really hard / is super talented
- write their name down
- become friends / build a relationship
- when you start a company, go recruit the top people from…
Meet Merger
@AtharvaRao13
from Alberta, Canada
- 17 years old
- Working on creating robots for food processing on farms
- Received a grant from
@naarnett
at
@1517fund
- Wants to solve the world's biggest problems in industrial manufacturing and agriculture with robotics
Want to move to the US to start a company? Already building elsewhere and thinking through how to relocate to the US?
We're organizing an immigration session for founders next Wednesday at 3PM PT with
@beondeck
,
@lighthousehq_
, and
@blackbirdvc
.
💌 DM for the link!
onboarded the latest
@mergedotclub
batch today, 2 random apps:
- "turning acid mine drainage into raw materials for cement"
- "developing EEG-integrated earbuds for continuous neuromonitoring and early detection of brain abnormalities"
how tf do ppl come up with these ideas
Congrats
@charliecfeng
and team on funding from
@HaunVentures
and ODF alumni like
@packyM
and
@JonathanHillis
.
Agora is already used for governance by many of the top protocols in the world — excited to see the progress they help facilitate in the years ahead!
👋 Introducing Agora – the end-to-end governance app for crypto protocols.
We've spent the last 18 months building deeply with top protocols like
@Optimism
,
@UniswapFND
,
@ENS_DAO
...
And starting today, you can get all of the same tools for your community through our new site!
We're now onboarding members into the club in batches. Next batch gets onboarded next week!
If you're a grant recipient and want to meet others working on ambitious projects learn more in our bio.
Big Lex news!! 🥳
We totally redesigned our editor. You don't have to choose between "pretty but overly minimal" and "powerful but clunky" —
@lexdotpage
gives you the best of both.
We also built a new custom instructions feature called "document context"
Meet
@advaitpaliwal
, Merge Club member in Michigan
- 20 years old
- Building cognitive architecture for LLMs
- Received a $1k grant from
@1517fund
's Medici Project
- Most recently built these AI smart glasses with Gemini 1.5 and a raspberry pi
Meet
@pasricha_sehaj
, Merge Club member in Bengaluru
- 19 years old
- Got a grant from
@srajagopalan
at Emergent Ventures
- Believes that the meaning of life is to play Factorio (context below)
- moved to BLR to explore industrial infra like energy, and build
@WayfarersSpace
Most kids learn CVC words in kindergarten (4-5 yrs old)
A few weeks into Mentava, and Matt’s making it work with his 2-yr-old 💪
This is just the beginning (literally)
Welcome
@mergedotclub
to the ODF family.
Merge is a club for grant recipients — hackers, scientists, and creators of all kinds.
Got a grant? Apply to join!
the biggest "why now" of Loyal was the creation of a new regulatory pathway that made it logistically feasible to develop an FDA-approved dog longevity drug.
FDA guidance was published September 2019, I incorporated Loyal October 2019 :)
Our mission: help more people start the best startups.
more + best.
Explore starting = ODF (
@beondeck
)
Pursue curiosity = Merge Club (
@mergedotclub
)
Move here = below + collab w
@minney_cat
for visas
Today is just a glimpse of what we've got cooking.