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Admissions Panel, Investor & Advisor
Mar 2018
StartX is the startup accelerator, fellowship, and community for Stanford students, professors, and alumni. We help Stanford’s highest-potential early-stage founders build a better future.
StartX is a community-run nonprofit organization, and we take 0% equity from our startups.This allows us to attract the best entrepreneurs and collaborate with others in the StartX ecosystem.
We are supported through grants, donations, and corporate sponsorships, including $8M in grant funding from Stanford University, Stanford Health Care, and Kauffman Foundation.
We are Industry and Stage Agnostic
StartX founders tackle big problems in every industry, from biotech, medical device, hardware, cleantech, and non-profit to consumer and enterprise IT.
The strength of our community speaks for itself:
2× higher chance of reaching $100M+ valuation than the best accelerators
1.7× higher seed valuation than the average Stanford startup
+50% more successful at reaching Series A than industry average
$8.4M average venture funding raised by StartX companies
85% StartX companies still growing + acquired over 8 years
5× proportion of venture funding raised by female-led StartX companies compared to industry average
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2022
Board Member
2022
Quora’s mission is to grow the world’s collective intelligence. We do this by connecting people and AI to share knowledge, collaborate, and solve problems together. By reducing friction in how intelligence is shared—publicly on Quora and privately on Poe—we’re building platforms that make knowledge more accessible and accelerate learning and progress for everyone.
Quora is a global knowledge sharing platform with hundreds of millions of monthly unique visitors, connecting writers who have knowledge across millions of topics with a global audience of readers who want to learn from their collective experience.
Poe aggregates access to the best models from many different AI companies in a single chat interface across all platforms, and enables creators to build and monetize applications that use these models.
Visit quora.com/careers to browse open roles and apply online.
Quora company blog: blog.quora.com
Engineering blog: engineering.quora.com
Design blog: design.quora.com
Data blog: data.quora.com
Recruiting blog: interviewingatquora.quora.com/
Intern blog: quorainterns.quora.com
2018
CEO & Co-founder
Mar 2018
Turing is one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies accelerating the advancement and deployment of powerful AI systems.
Turing helps customers in two ways: Working with the world’s leading AI labs to advance frontier model capabilities in thinking, reasoning, coding, agentic behavior, multimodality, multilinguality, STEM and frontier knowledge; and leveraging that work to build real-world AI systems that solve mission-critical priorities for companies.
Powering this growth is Turing’s talent cloud—an AI-vetted pool of 4M+ software engineers, data scientists, and STEM experts who can train models and build AI applications. All of this is orchestrated by ALAN—our AI-powered platform for matching and managing talent, and generating high-quality human and synthetic data to improve model performance. ALAN also accelerates workflows for model and agent evals, supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, reinforcement learning with human feedback, preference-pair generation, benchmarking, data capture for pre-training, post-training, and building AI applications.
Turing—based in San Francisco, California—was named #1 on The Information’s annual list of “Top 50 Most Promising B2B Companies,” and has been profiled by Fast Company, TechCrunch, Reuters, Semafor, VentureBeat, Entrepreneur, CNBC, Forbes, and many others. Turing’s leadership team includes AI technologists from Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, X, Stanford, Caltech, and MIT.
Admissions Panel, Investor & Advisor
Mar 2018
StartX is the startup accelerator, fellowship, and community for Stanford students, professors, and alumni. We help Stanford’s highest-potential early-stage founders build a better future.
StartX is a community-run nonprofit organization, and we take 0% equity from our startups.This allows us to attract the best entrepreneurs and collaborate with others in the StartX ecosystem.
We are supported through grants, donations, and corporate sponsorships, including $8M in grant funding from Stanford University, Stanford Health Care, and Kauffman Foundation.
We are Industry and Stage Agnostic
StartX founders tackle big problems in every industry, from biotech, medical device, hardware, cleantech, and non-profit to consumer and enterprise IT.
The strength of our community speaks for itself:
2× higher chance of reaching $100M+ valuation than the best accelerators
1.7× higher seed valuation than the average Stanford startup
+50% more successful at reaching Series A than industry average
$8.4M average venture funding raised by StartX companies
85% StartX companies still growing + acquired over 8 years
5× proportion of venture funding raised by female-led StartX companies compared to industry average
2017
Entrepreneur In Residence
Nov 2017
Foundation Capital was founded in 1995. As an early-stage venture capital firm, our fintech, enterprise, and consumer investments have reinvented industries and defined new markets. For over a quarter of a century—through boom and bust, prosperity or calamity—Foundation Capital has endured, evolved, and thrived, with over $3B assets under management, 34 IPOs and ICOs, and 80+ acquisitions to our name. Building companies is in our bones.
We back individuals who want to nudge the world ahead in some way, using a transformative business as their fulcrum. Great companies, like Apple or Amazon or Netflix, aren’t formed from code and corporate charters. They’re built on a foundation of dreams and desires; raised up through struggle and sacrifice. For such companies to succeed, the people who start and lead them have to want success badly. It has to come from the deepest part of them—a hunger to create something consequential, something lasting; a need to prove themselves, whether out of a sense of mission, or a yearning for significance, or a heart full for disobedience. We look for people who believe—even if they would never speak it out loud—that the purpose of life is to be briefly extraordinary.
We think that since the beginning of invention, humanity has advanced because the remarkable have pushed us forward. Because select women and men of their times have dared to think different, to build it better, to do what’s never been done. Across the ages, we’ve had many names for these people. Today, at Foundation Capital: we call them founders.
2008
CEO & Co-founder
2008
Rover was launched with the goal of helping people go further by connecting them to stories that inspire, inform and entertain. This app will help you discover stories you love through friends and interests you follow. We believe that connecting people with knowledge that sparks their curiosity is the way to move the world forward.
Just like the Mars Rover, ‘Curiosity’, Rover is about helping you take your inner curiosities further. We strongly believe that it is not products or companies that change the world, but rather inspired individuals who are brave enough to move forward with a bold idea. Rover’s mission is to help those individuals find their inspiration and change our world for the better.
You can now download the latest version of the app for iPhone and Android.
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flipora.android&hl=en
App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rover-friends.-interests./id902092194?mt=8
Or check out our website: http://www.roverapp.com/
