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General Partner @SouthPkCommons, Co-Founder @Bevel_Health | Ex: Early Eng @facebook, CTO @Dropbox, Board @Flipkart | Optimist, Builder, Dad

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Every founder I meet worries about missing this moment. The best worry about wasting it. There’s a difference. It’s a waste to ignore how much the world has changed. It’s a waste to think you can capture value with pure software the same as 5 years ago. It’s a waste to build something small. We have seen the shift slowly and then very quickly at South Park Commons. Here’s who we want in the Founder Fellowship now: hardware tinkerers, mad scientists, obsessives, biohackers, people who build nuclear reactors in their basements. People who want to get their hands dirty and touch grass and atoms. If you are only building software, then please (for your own sake!) have a thesis that all your friends laugh at you about. Heresy is the price of ambition. Then put yourself in the right environment to maximize your ambition. (Apply by August 2nd)

Every founder I meet worries about missing this moment. The best worry about wasting it. There’s a difference. It’s a waste to ignore how much the world has changed. It’s a waste to think you can capture value with pure software the same as 5 years ago. It’s a waste to build something small. We have seen the shift slowly and then very quickly at South Park Commons. Here’s who we want in the Founder Fellowship now: hardware tinkerers, mad scientists, obsessives, biohackers, people who build nuclear reactors in their basements. People who want to get their hands dirty and touch grass and atoms. If you are only building software, then please (for your own sake!) have a thesis that all your friends laugh at you about. Heresy is the price of ambition. Then put yourself in the right environment to maximize your ambition. (Apply by August 2nd)

76,873 views • 20 days ago

There's a lot of conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley that Elad Gil thinks is just wrong. He dropped by South Park Commons to make a case against all of it. (01:00) Approaches to starting a company (05:30) The cofounder fallacy (06:45) Winning is the only startup culture that matters (09:00) Why more markets are open right now than ever before (11:00) The oligopoly market (21:30) Product surface area beats data as a real competitive moat (25:30) The failure mode no one discusses: bad advice for working companies (34:00) How many Jensen Huangs are hiding in plain sight right now? (43:00) Pre-scheduling exit conversations as annual board hygiene (46:30) Why micromanagement is actually underrated

There's a lot of conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley that Elad Gil thinks is just wrong. He dropped by South Park Commons to make a case against all of it. (01:00) Approaches to starting a company (05:30) The cofounder fallacy (06:45) Winning is the only startup culture that matters (09:00) Why more markets are open right now than ever before (11:00) The oligopoly market (21:30) Product surface area beats data as a real competitive moat (25:30) The failure mode no one discusses: bad advice for working companies (34:00) How many Jensen Huangs are hiding in plain sight right now? (43:00) Pre-scheduling exit conversations as annual board hygiene (46:30) Why micromanagement is actually underrated

72,887 views • 4 months ago

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 South Park Commons Founder Fellowship application is open. Here’s what it takes to build at venture-scale in the age of AI:

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 South Park Commons Founder Fellowship application is open. Here’s what it takes to build at venture-scale in the age of AI:

191,304 views • 1 year ago

The attackers have AI. So do the defenders. Cybersecurity has a new shape: AI is both the threat and the only viable solution. Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks, joined me at South Park Commons to break down what’s next. (00:30) Big problems vs. fast wins (04:00) Joining Google (07:00) Larry Page's product obsession (10:00) He read every hiring packet himself (13:00) What Silicon Valley gets wrong about Masa Son (16:00) Successful founders never wish they took less risk (17:00) Joining Palo Alto knowing nothing about cybersecurity (20:00) What incumbents got wrong when ChatGPT launched (23:00) Security was never built into AI (28:00) No enterprise knows what's running inside its stack (31:00) AI finds bad code faster than humans ever could (35:00) The only way to fix the chaos is more AI (38:00) AI won't just automate work—it raises the floor (41:00) Foundation models vs. specialized stacks (45:00) Why communication is 30% of the job at scale

The attackers have AI. So do the defenders. Cybersecurity has a new shape: AI is both the threat and the only viable solution. Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks, joined me at South Park Commons to break down what’s next. (00:30) Big problems vs. fast wins (04:00) Joining Google (07:00) Larry Page's product obsession (10:00) He read every hiring packet himself (13:00) What Silicon Valley gets wrong about Masa Son (16:00) Successful founders never wish they took less risk (17:00) Joining Palo Alto knowing nothing about cybersecurity (20:00) What incumbents got wrong when ChatGPT launched (23:00) Security was never built into AI (28:00) No enterprise knows what's running inside its stack (31:00) AI finds bad code faster than humans ever could (35:00) The only way to fix the chaos is more AI (38:00) AI won't just automate work—it raises the floor (41:00) Foundation models vs. specialized stacks (45:00) Why communication is 30% of the job at scale

47,436 views • 3 months ago

They say attention is all you need. So get more attention South Park Commons. Founder Fellowship applications due Feb 1.

They say attention is all you need. So get more attention South Park Commons. Founder Fellowship applications due Feb 1.

67,522 views • 6 months ago

Success isn't automatic. You always have to be "refounding". Few know this better than Satya Nadella. I'm excited to share our full conversation with Satya at South Park Commons: quantum, AI, taking over Microsoft. Everything you'd want to learn from one of the GOATs.

Success isn't automatic. You always have to be "refounding". Few know this better than Satya Nadella. I'm excited to share our full conversation with Satya at South Park Commons: quantum, AI, taking over Microsoft. Everything you'd want to learn from one of the GOATs.

68,926 views • 1 year ago

Lingering is fatal.

Lingering is fatal.

22,702 views • 4 months ago

Sometimes speed is just impatience disguised as ambition.

Sometimes speed is just impatience disguised as ambition.

11,407 views • 1 month ago

One of my personal inspirations, OG of building for billions Nandan Nilekani joined me on Minus One at South Park Commons India. He didn't hold back. You need purpose, not permission. He’s bullish on India’s edge in solving real-world, population scale problems. As am I. Episode out now.

One of my personal inspirations, OG of building for billions Nandan Nilekani joined me on Minus One at South Park Commons India. He didn't hold back. You need purpose, not permission. He’s bullish on India’s edge in solving real-world, population scale problems. As am I. Episode out now.

28,528 views • 7 months ago

It's not attempting the bigger mountain that breaks founders. It's getting stuck on the smaller one.

It's not attempting the bigger mountain that breaks founders. It's getting stuck on the smaller one.

18,704 views • 1 year ago

Put the skeptic in charge if you want to disrupt the system. Boz has spent almost 20 years at Meta tackling new problems. And has fun doing it. Full South Park Commons Minus One episode out now.

Put the skeptic in charge if you want to disrupt the system. Boz has spent almost 20 years at Meta tackling new problems. And has fun doing it. Full South Park Commons Minus One episode out now.

17,042 views • 10 months ago

The Founder Fellowship is not an accelerator. That's why it's the best way to start your company. Accelerators optimize for local maxima. South Park Commons helps you through the ambiguity of the earliest stages so you can find global maxima.

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The Founder Fellowship is not an accelerator. That's why it's the best way to start your company. Accelerators optimize for local maxima. South Park Commons helps you through the ambiguity of the earliest stages so you can find global maxima.

22,518 views • 1 year ago

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