Great ideas rarely
emerge from isolation
SPC is a community of technologists ideating and validating what to build next. Our members range from exited founders and highly-cited researchers to new graduates and first-time entrepreneurs. What unites us is ambition, ability, and a mutual commitment to helping each other navigate -1 to 0.
Our Members
Over the last decade, over 1,000 technologists have joined us to start companies, pursue research, and work on figuring out what's next. Some common member archetypes include:
Scott Wu
Three-time IOI gold medalist who first joined SPC in 2017, Scott co-founded Lunchclub out of the community. He's now the co-founder and CEO of Cognition, the lab that built Devin, the first AI software engineer, and one of the fastest-scaling AI companies today.
Tuhin Srivastava
After a stint as a data scientist at Gumroad, Tuhin joined SPC and explored widely before founding Baseten, the ML model inference and deployment platform now used to ship AI products at production scale. Baseten is now a unicorn.
Amit Jain
After working on computer vision technology at Apple, Amit joined SPC and co-founded Luma AI, the generative AI lab building multimodal world models for video and 3D. Luma has become one of the breakout companies in generative media.
Anurag Goel
The eighth employee and Head of Risk at Stripe, Anurag joined SPC and founded Render, a modern cloud platform that lets developers build, deploy, and scale applications without managing infrastructure, now used by hundreds of thousands of developers.
Life at SPC
Member Residency
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-1 to 0 isn’t a side project. It’s a full time endeavor. Member residents spend 6 months at SPC ideating, validating new areas, finding collaborators, and building conviction in what they want to work on. Most are pursuing founding endeavors, but 30% are doing independent research or building outside the startup track entirely. We’ve had high-agency individuals of all kinds, from academic researchers to Olympians, join SPC to work alongside one another on new projects. Like any hard thing, it’s better done together.
Programming
Day to day programming includes peer accountability groups, learning forums, and workshops on the latest technological frontiers. We also facilitate roundtables and conversations with industry heavyweights such as Satya Nadella, Vinod Khosla, Fei-Fei Li, and more. The greatest value of the member residency is the community of talented peers it embeds you in. Figuring out where to dedicate the next stage of your life is best done in the most talent-dense environment possible. Our primary product is talent curation.
Residency vs. Fellowship
Member Residency and the Founder Fellowship are both paths to joining SPC. The Founder Fellowship supports technologists who know they want to start a company and are ready for funding to help. Member Residency is open to technologists who may or may not know they want to start a company and are not yet ready for funding. If you’re planning to fundraise soon, we may instead ask you to apply for our Founder Fellowship.
Next Steps
We accept new members on a rolling basis and will start processing your application whenever you apply. We go through every application and you’ll generally hear from us within 1-3 weeks. If we’re moving forward, we’ll invite you to an interview to learn more about you.