Nikhil Ramesh @nikutopian

Today we’re announcing SPC Fund IV: $575M to help founders find their life’s work. A decade of guiding founders through -1 to 0 brings @SPC to $2B in AUM and, more importantly, a 1200 member community of the world’s most talented technologists. We strongly believe that: → The person comes before the idea. At -1, generational founders are often busy reading, prototyping, discarding, and earning the right to their own conviction. → Ambition is social. The people you surround yourself with in the early days play a big part in inflecting your ambition. → Patience compounds. It is better to work on something you have deep conviction in rather than simply sprint at the first idea. The quiet months we protect at the beginning have produced three funds in the top 10% of their vintages, and companies like @baseten, @GammaApp, @render, @GoodfireAI, @LumaLabsAI, and @tryprofound. We are proud to have worked with all these founders in their -1 phase and beyond. While we defined -1 to 0, we're no longer bound by it. Fund IV allows us to partner with companies well beyond launch. We're doing this now because we've never seen a wider gap between what's possible and what's being attempted. Intelligence is abundant. The cost of trying ideas keeps falling, and problems that seemed insurmountable a few years ago are quickly becoming solvable. To our members, to the founders who trusted us before anyone else did, and to the LPs who had conviction in our own -1 journey: thank you. This milestone belongs to you as much as to us. To the builders looking to find your life’s work: let’s get started.

Absolutely fascinating project from @zan2434 and @eddiejiao_obj

Zain Shah @zan2434

4 months ago

Imagine every pixel on your screen, streamed live directly from a model. No HTML, no layout engine, no code. Just exactly what you want to see. @eddiejiao_obj, @drewocarr and I built a prototype to see how this could actually work, and set out to make it real. We're calling it

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Very interesting blog post. openai.com/index/harness-… I think it is a peek into how software engineering is going to evolve, for most of us in the near future.

SPC turns 10 this year. A decade ago, Ruchi and I just wanted a space for people who weren't ready to start a company but knew they wanted to build something. We wanted to create a startup that would help other startups and founders. The best founders aren't just creative. They're ferociously competitive. They want to win. Not because they care about status — because they're greedy. Greedy to bring about the change they know must happen. And so I am feeling greedy. We have had a great 10 years. But I want more. I want more startups to exist and solve big problems. I want to work with more insane and wacky builders. The problems get bigger. The stakes get higher. Your ambition expands to fill the space. If you're in the -1 to 0 phase and feeling both terrified and alive: that's the signal. Don't ignore it. Be more ambitious. We at SPC certainly are going to be maximally aggressive and ambitious on our end. It's Day Minus One. Let's build.

They say attention is all you need. So get more attention @spc. Founder Fellowship applications due Feb 1.

After years of overthinking it, I finally started writing publicly. My first post is a reflection on simplicity—in philosophy, software engineering, and AI-driven system design. If you’re curious, here’s the piece: In Pursuit of Simplicity nikhilramesh.org/simplicity_blog

What do we mean when we talk about talent density @spc? This is the company you'll keep in the member residency. Why it's the best place to figure out what you want to build.

At Vmax, we are automating the construction of RL environments and the post-training of agents. We are hiring members of technical staff and research fellows. Come join us in SF! (link to apply in comments).

@henrythe9ths FUNDRAISE

Evals are what turn prototypes into production agents. Test data, quality rubrics, metrics and looking at the data - are all critical to drive the "quality hill-climb" — I just prefer calling it opportunity analysis, not error analysis. :)

Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg

10 months ago

Readers responded with both surprise and agreement last week when I wrote that the single biggest predictor of how rapidly a team makes progress building an AI agent lay in their ability to drive a disciplined process for evals (measuring the system’s performance) and error

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If you are a parent looking for a device to help nurture your kids' curiosity, without them getting addicted to screens, check out Bunny!!

Naman Jain @theBhulawat

11 months ago

Introducing Bunny - world's first curiosity device for kids It’s screenfree..it’s portable.. We raised $1M from @spc to reimagine how kids thrive in the age of AI, safely. Comment 'Bunny'. Our nephew will pick 50 families that get it for free this holiday season…

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@theBhulawat @spc Awesome launch guys !! Go Bunny !!

1/ Uttara Labs AGI, but make it: Accounting General Intelligence. @shastry & @anilkatti showed us Cadel AI—a virtual CFO—that validates contracts, checks budgets, & more uttaralabs.com

The interesting opportunities now are the illegible ones. Asymmetric risk and reward. Crazy, heretical ideas. Let us help you be as ambitious as the moment demands Applications for the $1M @spc Founder Fellowship close August 3 blog.southparkcommons.com/spc-founder-fe…

1/ We're on the precipice of the most fundamental computing revolution I've seen in my life. You should have FOMO. Don't waste it in local maxima. The $1M @spc Founder Fellowship application is open. Here’s what it takes to build at venture-scale in the age of AI:

@thegautam This approach seems fascinating @thegautam . Congrats on the great results.

1/ We’re humbled to announce @spc Fund III: $275M to support exceptional founders from day -1. Since 2016, we’ve had a simple thesis: greatness is more likely to emerge when high talent density meets high curiosity. That's why we focus on -1 to 0.

@deedydas If you want to learn more about the legal aspects of this executive order, here is a post on aide.law aide.law/answers/donald… You can ask more law related questions on that link.

Really good post by @chipro on Agents. A deep dive into planning, tool integration and the challenges. huyenchip.com/2025/01/07/age…

Researchers are predicting near-term AGI with transformative potential. But how soon will society catch up? A great exploration of cutting-edge AI, benchmarks, and agents by @emollick in this blog.

Ethan Mollick @emollick

2 years ago

There has been a definite shift in recent weeks where insiders in the various AI labs are suggesting that very intelligent AIs are coming very soon. I wrote a bit about why this might be happening and what we can take away from their apparent confidence. oneusefulthing.org/p/prophecies-o…

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