(0015) stealth + promising students

December 13, 2024

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People

Gyanendra Mishra
- Ex-Palantir, Kurtosis, and Bloomberg engineer now working in stealth for the last three months.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Larry Diehl
- Programming language PhD and researcher now founding Colimit to autofix failed software builds.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Noah Fradin
- Founding engineer at Surround, a machine learning company acquired by Xevo, where he later became VP of Product. Later worked on Picket (web3 auth api) and now “working on something new”.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Rahul Chalamala
- Took a break from Caltech to do research at Together AI. No clear founder signals at the moment but he’s early in his career active in the AI and startup space and some early VC interest.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Ian Dalmas
- CS student at Stanford who participated in Z Fellows. Hackathon enthusiast with some side projects including a mobile app to help teens limit the time they engage with their phones. Might be a good lead in the future.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Jennifer Yen
- Approaching end of first year engineering at Perplexity. Previously part of the early team at Phantom (crypto wallets) and a Fellow at Contrary and Pear VC. No strong founder signals but some VC interest and clearly interested in startups.
- Twitter / LinkedIn

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