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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 months

Is it stupid to invest *before* a founder has an idea? We don't think so. In fact, the majority of SPC founder fellows are *pre-idea* when they apply and their companies are now worth over $1B. So how do we do it?

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 months

What a weekend! Congratulations to our prize winners! @pritopian @harshsa @purvanshi_mehta @soniajoseph_ @noahmacca @_klyap_

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 months

Tuesday night musings with @sama and @adityaag

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 years

I’m moving from SF to… a different place in SF. Is that allowed still?

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

11 months

The Founder Fellowship helps you reach conviction in an idea that you can make your life’s work. We’ll show our conviction by giving you $1,000,000 to go from -1 to 0.

Aditya Agarwal

@adityaag

11 months

1/ Startups are absurdly difficult. The stars must align for even a chance at success. The @southpkcommons Founder Fellowship gives founders the best chance possible. Applications are open for $1M and the -1 to 0 support that's produced 145 companies worth $35B.🧵

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 years

When I joined @southpkcommons 3 years ago, I had no idea what I wanted to do next. It didn’t take long for me to realize that SPC was home. It’s daunting to figure out what to spend the next 5-10 years working on. Here’s how SPC helps👇

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

2 years

South Park Commons, an "anti incubator" founded by early FB and Dropbox engineers, gains momentum by @cookie

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 months

Silicon Valley runs on GPUs & Diet Coke ❤️

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

3 months

Prepared for the SPC- @OpenAI hackathon tonight

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

10 months

This will be the most selective fellowship yet. - Will likely double the previous application record - Quality is off the charts - AI, healthcare, devtools are most popular - We will continue to have a small, intimate cohort (8-12 teams with 6 partners) to maximize support

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

10 months

🚨Founder Fellowship applications close today🚨 Submit your application by 11:59pm PT 🚀 Apply link & FAQ in the next post ⬇️

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

9 months

Kicking off the latest @southpkcommons founder fellowship. Excited to navigate the twists and turns of ideation with this group!

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 years

SPC is coming to NYC! I wrote a short post about the energy we're seeing in our growing NYC community and our decision to open a 2nd SPC space. We hope that you can join us at some of our IRL events over the coming months. @randizuckerberg is joining us on Thursday 🗽

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

2 years

1/ We are excited to officially launch SPC NYC this week with our NYC IRL Events Series, starting with none other than @randizuckerberg . SPC partner @tfmeeks22 wrote about why we're opening a physical location in NYC & our exciting upcoming events.

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 months

Packed house for finalist demos! @southpkcommons @OpenAI

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 years

It’s a beautiful day in San Francisco. IRL meetings @southpkcommons all day. We’re back!

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

11 months

What was your favorite part of Oppenheimer? Mine was AN HOUR in when the couple next to me asked if they were in Mission Impossible and then frantically rushed out when I told them no

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@finn_meeks

3 years

Seen in SF today. Certainly feels like a busy time @southpkcommons

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

10 months

Got a sneak peek of this at the @southpkcommons demo faire and it’s VERY cool

Luma AI

@LumaLabsAI

10 months

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 months

Day 2, let's go!

Riya Jagetia

@RiyaJagetia

3 months

Great first night at the @southpkcommons & @OpenAI hackathon - excited to bring our vision to life over the next 2 days! 💪🏽

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

21 days

Time to build

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

4 months

SF is back

Aditya Agarwal

@adityaag

4 months

SF reloading @southpkcommons So much more in 2024...🚀

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 years

Are you interested in government and technology? Our new speaker series @southpkcommons will explore arguments for/against the privatization of government and examine where technology can impact industries like climate, housing, space, defense, and education.

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

2 years

We're excited to announce the New American Frontier (NAF) Speaker Series! NAF focuses on industries that will have outsized impact on the future, like energy, space, housing, defense, climate, & more. And we're opening the series up to the public.

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 years

Community lead will be one of the most important positions over the next decade. It’s particularly top of mind for the web3 founders I chat with. Genuinely curious where companies will find them?

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 months

It is more important to find the right idea than the first idea.

Aditya Agarwal

@adityaag

2 months

Apps for the @southpkcommons Founder Fellowship close soon, on March 24th. So let me make the final, simplest case for why this is the best way to start a world-changing company: It is too easy to convince an investor to back an idea before you have convinced yourself. 🧵

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 months

-1 to the world. We're excited to collaborate with @binnybansal to bring SPC's company building philosophy to India.

Aditya Agarwal

@adityaag

2 months

Told you we wanted to see applications from Indian founders @southpkcommons . @rsanghvi and I are incredibly excited to work with @binnybansal to bring the -1 to 0 approach to India. More soon.

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

4 months

Build a world, not just an MVP.

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

4 months

How do you generate and validate startup ideas? How do you go from -1 to 0? The best founders approach ideation as worldbuilders, not just problem solvers. Worldbuilding is not a rhetorical device—it’s a tactical response to the problem of venture scale. The common joke about

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 years

My favorite part of @southpkcommons is meeting potential members. Met 3 today that all had different, yet equally fascinating backgrounds. Thankful that I get to have these conversations!

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 months

"The real limit on humanity is our ability to process our own potential" Thinking about this quote from @bscholl and @avichal 's conversation at SPC a few years ago. Go bigger.

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 years

We love experimenting at SPC. It's the ethos of our community. We're excited to support the world’s best founders with a 3rd founder fellowship. This time we’re focusing on an area with an unprecedented energy for building, web3! To do that, we’ve formed a DAO with friends:

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

2 years

1/ Thrilled to open applications for our 3rd Founder Fellowship cohort—$400k in funding pre-idea. But this time, with our friends @ScriptCapital , @mvernal from @sequoia , @zoink , @ljin18 , and @multicoincap , we're going all-in on web3.

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@finn_meeks

2 years

In early 2018, we raised a small seed fund to support @southpkcommons financially and ensure that the community would exist for future generations of members. Today we're delighted to share early results and learnings from SPC Fund I.

Aditya Agarwal

@adityaag

2 years

I'm excited to share some early results from a @southpkcommons experiment we started 3 years ago: SPC Fund I. - Top 1% of all funds from our vintage (2018) - Already returned 1x capital to investors More on how we did it 🧵

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 years

Excited to share a bit more of our thinking @southpkcommons on the themes we chose for Founder Fellowship 4 by focusing on what's probably the highest-potential market of all: AI/ML. 👇

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 years

Like most things at SPC, our community in NYC started as an experiment when a few members moved there during the pandemic and started referring friends. Now there are ~40 members in NYC. We're excited that one of them, @lynettexyz , is joining our team to formally open SPC NYC!

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@finn_meeks

2 years

It's been great working with @WillPapper and the @SyndicateDAO team on our investment DAO for the SPC-Script Founder Fellowship. Investing will be more community-driven in the future. They are making that possible!

justin vogel 🦁

@jkey_eth

2 years

10/10 TLDR Syndicate is transforming investing via accessible, effortless, & social web3 tech. Their #web3 investment clubs can invest in tokens, NFTs, off-chain startups, & other assets. It's powering web3 investment groups like @southpkcommons , @globalcoinrsrch , & @hello_we3

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

1 month

Shoutout to @andrewparker for creating the first demo faire 4 years ago. Our special tradition of live demos has now spread to NYC!

Jonathan Brebner

@JPBrebner

1 month

Standing room only at the first @southpkcommons Demo Faire in NYC!

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 years

Lots of people are focused on the causes of the Great Resignation (covid-burnout, wfh, etc) Fewer talk about the enablers of the Great Formation. It has never been easier to start a company. There’s been an explosion in vertical software providers focused on SMBs and startups

Andy Weissman

@aweissman

2 years

"Maybe what we are witnessing is not the Great Resignation but the Great Formation" - @fredwilson

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

5 months

An absolutely massive announcement from @LumaLabsAI . While image and video models have been a step in the right direction for multimodal AI, Genie 1.0 will usher in a new era of immersive AI-generated experiences. Creating will never be the same!

Luma AI

@LumaLabsAI

5 months

🔥 Introducing Genie 1.0, our first step towards building multimodal AI. Genie is a text-to-3d model capable of creating any 3d object you can dream of in under 10 seconds with materials, quad mesh retopology, variable polycount, and in all standard formats! Try it on web and in

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 months

But it isn't easy money. If you apply, there's a >99% chance you won't get in. If that doesn't scare you, then you might be exactly who we're looking for. Just a few hours left to apply...

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

6 months

We're looking forward to our winter demo faire this afternoon. Come see live product demos from the builders at @southpkcommons We have a great lineup featuring...

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

6 months

🚨SPC Demo Faire is tomorrow!🚨 If you want to see what SPC members and alumni are building (and trust us, you want to see what they're building), apply to attend at the link.

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

7 months

I was traveling with family for the last 5 days. What did I miss?

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 years

I often hear the question: "what makes a good SPC member?" Here is what we look for 🧵👇

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

2 years

We've seen a big increase in applicants to the SPC community recently and regularly hear the question, "what makes a good SPC member?" SPC Fund partner and co-head of community @tfmeeks22 wrote about what we look for in potential members.

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 years

A few people have asked what I'm most excited for with our new Founder Fellowship. The DAO structure is a clear winner. Here's why 👇 (and don't forget to apply )

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

2 years

1/ Thrilled to open applications for our 3rd Founder Fellowship cohort—$400k in funding pre-idea. But this time, with our friends @ScriptCapital , @mvernal from @sequoia , @zoink , @ljin18 , and @multicoincap , we're going all-in on web3.

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

1 year

It's the last week to apply for the @southpkcommons founder fellowship! We have been blown away by the quality of the folks that we have interviewed so far. It promises to be a talented group to build with!

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

1 year

🚨SPC Founder Fellowship applications close in 5 DAYS, at 11:59pm PT on Friday, March 10th!🚨 Fellows get $400k funding, SPC membership, & mentorship from SPC Partners in a small cohort. Show us your north star and we’ll help you build a rocket ship.🚀

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

10 months

Excited to see 3 SPC companies on the @Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars list this year! @Durableteam @LumaLabsAI @trySparrowHQ

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 years

Day one of the @southpkcommons web3 fellowship and had to break out my favorite socks. Excited to work with these founders to build projects as impactful as @graphprotocol over the coming years!

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 years

People come to @southpkcommons to explore all sorts of projects. @bilalmahmood decided to make the future of California and San Francisco his project. Excited to support him in the upcoming CA State Assembly special election!

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 years

Congrats to @getatlys @MeetGamma and @DashworksAI on their exciting (and well-timed) announcements! Check out this inside look on why we backed them from day 1!

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

3 years

1/ Yesterday was a busy day at SPC, with 3 SPC companies publicly launching! To celebrate, we're giving everyone a glimpse of why we backed these companies and what's next for them. Read on for more 🧵👇

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

6 months

Congratulations @jamesclift and @Durableteam on their Series A. 6 million websites and counting!

James Clift

@jamesclift

6 months

I’m excited to share that we've raised a $14m Series A at Durable, led by @sparkcapital . It's been an incredible 12 months. Over 6 million websites have been created, and I'm inspired every day by the companies built with Durable.

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 months

The @LumaLabsAI team has brought out the Vision Pros 👀 @BarkleyDai @karanganesan

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 years

What a weekend! It was wonderful to see so many members and alums come together to celebrate our community!

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

2 years

Thanks to all the SPC members and friends who joined us this last weekend for our annual summer BBQ! We're so grateful to have all of you in the community and can't wait to see you all again soon.

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 years

It has been a long time goal of @southpkcommons to support those working on technology for social impact. We're excited to collaborate with the Agency Fund on a new Social Impact Fellowship that provides a stipend and mentorship for social impact entrepreneurs to get started!

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

3 years

We're excited to announce the SPC-Agency Fund Social Impact Fellowship. If you're a technologist, researcher, or scientist looking to empower low income people using technology, we want to hear from you!

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

1 year

Congrats @nseldeib and @jaredcosulich ! After meeting at SPC and taking part in our founder fellowship, they built a reimagined wallet that serves as the hub for discovery, engagement (and yes, a wallet) for the Sui blockchain 👇

Ethos ✨ Wallet

@EthosWalletXYZ

1 year

✨Seed Funding News ✨ Ethos has raised $4.2 million in a seed round to continue development of their reimagined wallet focused on discovering and engaging with apps on the Sui blockchain, and the accompanying wallet infrastructure. 1/

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

11 months

This is a useful visual representation of the -1 to 0.

Aditya Agarwal

@adityaag

11 months

A better way of visualizing the pre-seed to seed journey and where incubator/accelerator programs line up.

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 months

There are many places to go from 0 to 1. There is only one place to go from -1 to 0. If you are insanely ambitious, this is the place to get started.

Aditya Agarwal

@adityaag

3 months

It's the most exciting moment in tech in a generation. Maybe ever. The ceiling on what's possible is gone. So be insanely ambitious. Anything else is a waste. We created the @southpkcommons Founder Fellowship for worldbuilders. If that's you, applications are open (next post).

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

1 month

Check out the latest from SPC NYC!

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

1 month

This week, in front of a packed audience, 10 SPC teams gave us a master class in why demos > slides. We were thrilled to officially open our new NYC community space with this celebration of SPC's builder culture. Check out the demos below! 🧵

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 years

OH at SPC friendsgiving "what's the most interesting thing happening @southpkcommons right now?" "Well someone is building a lab robot in the utility closet... so there's that"

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 years

Long time listener, first time caller... Excited to put @HarryStebbings on the other side of the interview during this fireside chat tomorrow!

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

2 years

We're excited to have @twentyminutevc host @HarryStebbings join us tomorrow for a fireside chat with SPC members, moderated by our own wunderkind, SPC partner @finn_meeks !

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

7 months

Earthquake twitter is so back.

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 months

Getting a lot of requests to attend the demos today for the @southpkcommons + @OpenAI hackathon! DM me if you want to join. Limited space!

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 years

Thankful that these Happy Thanksgiving emails conveniently remind me of all of the services I need to unsubscribe to

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 years

Excited to see so many @southpkcommons members and friends visiting our new NYC space! Thanks @mitchelljhammer and @ElectricCapital for cohosting!

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

2 years

That's a wrap on day 1 of SPC NFT NYC! Thanks to @ElectricCapital for co-hosting today's open house. Exciting to have so many builders join us at our SoHo space—attendees got this awesome NFT we commissioned (don't you dare right click). Day 2 & 3 event info below!👇

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 months

@helnzhou and @arnaudai are special founders. I am grateful that @southpkcommons played a small role in their journey!

Cerebral Valley

@cerebral_valley

3 months

Our Deep Dive on @Galileo_AI is now live! @arnaudai walks us through his and @helnzhou 's vision for Galileo - the #1 prompt-to-UI generative AI tool - as well as building at the intersection of AI and design. "The hardest part is that we needed to invent the field from scratch

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

1 year

We're very excited to announce our Community Grant, a $25,000 grant to turn that side project into a full-time project at SPC. If you are working on research, contributing to open-source software, tinkering on a prototype or exploring another side project -- come build with us!

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

1 year

Today we're excited to announce our newest experiment in helping talented technologists navigate -1 to 0: the $25k SPC Community Grant. Think of it as funding to work on your side project in the SPC community. Here's what we're looking to support 👇

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

4 months

Super excited for this!

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

4 months

We're hosting a hackathon with @OpenAI ! Starting with an off-the-record talk for SPC members and hackathon guests with none other than @sama on Feb 27th. If you're interested in joining the hackathon and the talk, sign up in the next post ⬇️

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 months

Get out and vote today! We’re supporting @bilalmahmood and @Mtclai , two SPC alums on the ballot for SF DCCC. Fortunately, you can vote for both!

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@finn_meeks

1 month

New York 🤝 New Demos If you want to see the latest creations of @southpkcommons NYC members, drop by next week. Live demos only!

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

1 month

We have one strict rule for SPC Demo Faire—presenters have to actually show a live demo, not a slide deck. On Wed. May 1, we're hosting our first ever Demo Faire in NYC. RSVP in the next post if you want to see the latest and greatest LIVE demos from SPC members and alumni!

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 years

@feross was always the open-source expert @southpkcommons . Excited to see him and the team take on the challenge of securing that ecosystem!

Feross

@feross

2 years

🎉 Big news! 🚀 I'm excited to announce that Socket has raised a $4.6M Series Seed! ⭐️ Read our blog post announcement: ⭐️ Read the in-depth TechCrunch exclusive: 🧵 Thread ⬇️

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 years

Amazing news from SPC alums @GavinNachbar and @michaelrbock . @ColumnTax is building an entirely new type of tax product that enables year-round filing and returns, all directly embedded in the financial apps that you already use!

Michael R. Bock

@michaelrbock

2 years

Thrilled to share we've raised $21.7m for @ColumnTax to scale up our fundamentally new tax filing product It's been so much fun building the first-ever IRS authorized tax filing API with the amazing team here

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3 years

1/ Frankly, the IRS isn't known for being fast. (please don't audit me for saying this) That's where @ColumnTax fits in. They give Americans immediate access to what is often their largest payday of the year... a tax refund.

Michael R. Bock

@michaelrbock

3 years

1/ Thrilled to announce we've raised $5.1m for @ColumnTax to reimagine personal income tax software in the US In February (tax season) of 2021, @GavinNachbar and I set out to find a hairy software + ops problem to solve...

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 years

No better feeling than using an amazing product built by other members of South Park Commons. FF3 companies will onboard with @starlight_money , built by @greyngyen and @benjyang_ from FF2. With 100+ companies and 400+ members, the SPC network effect is increasingly strong

Grey

@greyngyen

2 years

1/ I'm excited to finally be able to share what our team @starlight_money has been building. Earlier last year, when @benjyang_ and I were experimenting with different ideas in web3, we realized that it was surprisingly very hard for a small startup to buy crypto.

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 months

Day 3! 🏁🔜

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

3 months

Less than 3 hours to go until final demos are due in the SPC- @OpenAI Hackathon! Follow along as teams race toward the deadline ⬇️

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@finn_meeks

3 years

1/ Congratulations @anuraggoel and the whole @render team! While this post highlights the impact of SPC on Render's journey, I can't help but reflect on impact Anurag had on SPC 👇

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

3 years

Our founding member @rsanghvi spoke with @anuraggoel , early SPC member and founder and CEO of @render , ahead of Render's $20M Series A announcement, about the role the community played in Anurag's founder journey.

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 years

I’m grateful for members like @rsanghvi @adamn @giacaglia @wis3foo1 @dragonaire @nkgpta and many others that welcomed me to this community 3 years ago. 🙏 And I can’t wait to see what the next 3 hold!

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@finn_meeks

2 years

We're delighted to open applications for our 4th Founder Fellowship. While others are backing away, we are excited to double down on supporting ambitious founders going from -1 to 0.

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

2 years

🚨🚨Founder Fellowship Cohort 4 applications now open! The startup environment has changed. Our terms haven't. $400k for 7% pre-idea. Open to founders exploring any venture-scale opportunity (but with 3 areas we're emphasizing—read on for more).

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 months

Check out the winners and finalists from our hackathon with OpenAI last weekend 👇

Jonathan Brebner

@JPBrebner

3 months

Behold! The winners of the @southpkcommons x @OpenAI Hackathon! Over 40 teams spent 45 hours last weekend hacking together these and many more impressive projects. Thanks again to our judges @snsf , Irina Kofman, @mvernal , @arnaudai , & @finn_meeks ! 🧵

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 months

Even though we invest pre-idea, we don't invest pre-anything. You might already be hacking on a few ideas. You might be telling anyone who will listen about a problem that you want to solve. You might be ready to quit your job and pursue something of your own.

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 years

Absolutely cannot wait to meet the first group of social impact fellows in January! Their projects are incredibly inspiring and we're excited to help bring them to life! S/O to the SPC SIF + Agency Fund teams for a superhuman effort evaluating and selecting this group!

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

3 years

Nine teams will join us in January to collectively learn and explore how to support the agency of people exposed to poverty and marginalization. In evaluating their applications, we focused on five areas: track record, adaptability, hustle, insight, & impact.

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

1 year

We're excited to welcome new members in a month. If you are thinking about quitting your job or building something new, this is your sign to do so!

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

1 year

⏰ The deadline for our next member cohort is May 24th! What does SPC look for in applicants? It's all about finding a combination of High Velocity and High Acceleration. Here's what we mean.

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 years

Don't forget to drop the ENS of your referrer! Probs nothing 👀

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

2 years

gm We added a referrer's field to our web3 Founder Fellowship application. Probably nothing 👀 Apply here by 11:59pm PT this Thursday 1/13:

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 months

This was awesome! All in a weekend’s work for @kodjima33

Nik Shevchenko

@kodjima33

3 months

I got a 40 page cease and desist from @Humane but that didn’t stop us. At @southpkcommons x @OpenAI we built WHOMANE, an open source AI Pin with a camera

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

10 months

Very excited to welcome @danh_trang to our team! We're looking forward to building with him for many years to come.

Danh Trang

@danh_trang

10 months

Exciting news! I've joined the team at @southpkcommons ! Looking forward to incorporating my product, public markets, and angel investing experiences in service of backing founders in the earliest of innings. Let's build! 🚀 ...also, time to up my X/Twitter game! 🙃

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 years

Only a few days left to apply to the @southpkcommons social impact fellowship! 👇

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

3 years

Access to people and information is key to unlocking our individual agency. That's a basic premise of the SPC community, and why we're partnering with @agencyfund : to give social innovators an unbeatable braintrust of advisors and mentors.

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 years

It's been amazing to see the progress that @gravicle and team have made over the last few months. Can't wait for the beta!

Luma AI

@LumaLabsAI

2 years

We have been advancing at an incredible pace over these past few months! Checkout this complex stroller we captured casually using just our iOS app. There’s a lot more to share! Watch this space. #3D #3DModel #XR #AR #VR #NeuralRendering #Blender3D

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

9 months

This is like CharacterAI for the enterprise. Create customer models to augment your user research and get real time feedback on your ideas, products, and positioning. Great work @dhruv_guliani !

Dhruv Guliani

@dhruv_guliani

9 months

🎉I’m excited to announce Keplar: the first SaaS product to deliver hyper-realistic customer models for marketing and brand teams. It lets consumer companies develop powerful test & learn flywheels to solve big creative problems. Early access at: 🚀

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 months

Algebra is so back

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 months

👍

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

3 months

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 SPC @OpenAI Hackathon Day 2! (Yes we counted)

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 years

No better way to welcome in the new year!

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@finn_meeks

7 months

To go from 0 to 1, you first need to go from -1 to 0. That's what we do at @southpkcommons

Dan Shipper 📧

@danshipper

7 months

Founders often wander in the wilderness for years before they find a product they want to work on. Learning to navigate this process is the difference between building something great—and not building at all. @rsanghvi explains in @every :

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

4 months

One of the most impressive AI products out there. Try out @Galileo_AI today!

Galileo AI

@Galileo_AI

4 months

Meet Galileo 1.0: The game-changing prompt-to-UI platform now open to all. Our mission is to supercharge the creative process of designers and builders, making design easy, fast and magical. Bring your idea, let AI do the heavy lifting. Start today:

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@finn_meeks

2 years

Evan and AJ are two of the most genuine and supportive preseed investors out there. We're lucky to call them frequent day 1 collaborators! Congrats @evantana and @ajhit406 - the best has yet to come!

Evan Tana | evantana.eth

@evantana

2 years

✨Excited to *finally* announce our $38M pre-seed Fund II and new @ScriptCapital brand! ✨ As two former founders, @ajhit406 and I love the pre-seed stage and are grateful that we get to serve founders for years to come. Read more: . (1/5)

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 months

Over half of US unicorns are founded by immigrants. Immigration powers innovation.

Sar Haribhakti

@sarthakgh

2 months

Significant portion of progress in the US is because of legal immigration that politicians do nothing to help increase because primary voters care about borders more than STEM

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 years

Congrats @wynnandrewj and @pchekuri ! I'm stoked to see you build a modern payments platform that delivers real value to insurance sellers AND buyers alike. It's a 100x better experience for everyone. If you're looking to join a 🚀, this is it!

Ascend

@useascend

3 years

Excited to share our $5.5M seed round led by @firstround and featured in @TechCrunch @ChristineMHall

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

2 years

It's a fun day when you get to play around with an SPC co's product! My grandpa was an aerial photographer in the Navy and left me an album of lifestyle photos from his time stationed in Pearl Harbor. Used the @basetenco demo put together by @tuhinone @amiruci to touch them up!

Amir Haghighat

@amiruci

2 years

🎄🎅 Something fun for holiday family gatherings: restoring old photos. Here's one with my mom and I :) You can try it: . It's a @basetenco app + GFP GAN.

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

5 months

If you are a builder or researcher interested in joining one of the most talented teams in AI, Luma is expanding the team with their new round.

Luma AI - Careers

Capture the world in lifelike 3D

lumalabs.ai

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

1 year

This is an absolute must-see event during SF Techweek!

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

1 year

For next week's SF #TechWeek we're hosting an all-star speaker panel on the critical -1 to 0 stage of the founder journey, featuring @avichal of @ElectricCapital , @reinpk of @CharmIndustrial , and SPC Partners @rsanghvi & @adityaag . RSVP in the next tweet if you want to join!

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

1 year

Build something people love ✅ Congratulations @anuraggoel and the @render team!

Anurag Goel

@anuraggoel

1 year

At its core, @render is building two crucial things: * The next major abstraction layer for cloud computing * A ubiquitous all-in-one cloud to power the abstraction As we continue to build toward our ambitious vision, I'm excited to announce Render's $50M Series B led by

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

7 months

Absolutely mind-blowing

Luma AI

@LumaLabsAI

7 months

Meet Genie, a research preview of an all-new kind of generative 3D foundation model #MadeWithGenie 💬 Create 3D things in seconds on Discord ⚡️ Prototype in various styles 🎨 Customize materials 🆓 Free during research preview Try it now 👇

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

1 year

Shoutout to SPC companies @DashworksAI @Durableteam @facet_ai @LumaLabsAI @gantry_ml @genintelligent & @regieai ! There will be many more on this list soon!

Aditya Agarwal

@adityaag

1 year

SPC is 10% of this list.

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 years

I survived 12 months of remote work with a laptop as my home setup AMA

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

5 months

You can now speak software into existence with Construct. @knshkvshsht is building the future!

Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

5 months

Super excited to announce Construct - a new way for people to build and share software using only their words. We're opening up our closed beta to the public today. Please sign up at for early access :)

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

1 year

Sprinkle in a little AI... and SF is back! Thanks @kanjun and @joshalbrecht for the discussion and @johnvmcdonnell for moderating!

Ron Pragides 

@mrp

1 year

2023 in SF, feels like 2019. Don’t call it a comeback.

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

1 year

Fun hosting @LangChainAI for demos at SPC NYC last night! Some of the most exciting applications leveraging LLMs are being built @southpkcommons right now

Harrison Chase

@hwchase17

1 year

wow... awesome job @samcwl and @johnjnay organizing, and big thanks @southpkcommons and @graceisford / Lux for hosting/sponsoring!

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 years

We’re growing our team! 🚨📈 Over the last 2.5 years, I’ve been lucky to see many talented founders and friends embark on their journeys at @southpkcommons . This is an exciting opportunity to creatively share their stories — and tie them together into the story of our community.

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

3 years

SPC is looking for a full-time Chief Storyteller to tell the world our community's amazing story. Since 2015, @southpkcommons has had 250+ members that have built 60+ startups and have gone off to be at cutting-edge research institutions like CZI, OpenAI, and GoogleAI

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Finn Meeks

@finn_meeks

3 years

What a week! We are thrilled to partner up with SPC member @gravicle and @albtaiuti in the seed round for Luma. The photorealistic experiences they are enabling are truly magical! Check out a sneak peek in their announcement 👇

Luma AI

@LumaLabsAI

3 years

Hello, World! At Luma we are building the camera software of the future. Software that will give all of us superpowers to capture the world in lifelike photorealistic 3D, and bring everything we love into the metaverse. And all this, using just phones!

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