Representative outcomes

Across companies and roles, the same pattern shows up.

The people below were trusted early, took on responsibility quickly, and compounded impact over time. The outcomes here are the result of underwriting that judgment.

• Dennis Cui — former CTO Cobalt Robotics (Sequoia), ex-Jane Street and Harvard
  → Joined Decagon at Series A; now VP Engineering
• Selim Onal — former founder; engineering leadership at Quip and Slack; ex-Palantir
  → Head of Engineering at Charta Health (Series A, BCV)
• Felix Wong — led Snap's My AI, ex-Meta Head of Engineering for Messenger Platform
  → CTO at Fundamental Research Labs (Series A, a16z)
• Yichen Wang — ex-Airtable, Uber tech lead; former early-stage Head of Engineering
  → Staff engineer at Luma AI (Series C, a16z)
• Nick Bradford — YC ’24 founder; former quant / algorithmic engineer
  → Engineer at Cursor
• Joel Alexander — former YC ’23 founder and Lyft SWE; investment banker turned engineer
  → Field Engineer at Cursor
• Biniyam Asnake — former tech lead & PM at AtoB; ex-Uber, Aurora
  → Tech lead at Finch Legal (Series A, Sequoia)
• Amit Patel — former quant researcher Two Sigma; ex-founder
  → AI Engineer at Finch Legal (Series A, Sequoia)
• Nihal Shivannagari — ex-Windsurf
  → Engineer at Voltai (Series A, Sequoia)
• Ian MacClancy — ML infrastructure specialist at OpenEvidence
  ‍→ ML infra engineer at Black Forest Labs
• Zizhong Zhang — early staff engineer at HeyGen
  ‍→ Engineer at Salient AI (Series B, a16z)
• Motoki Wu — early ML engineer at Cresta
  → AI engineer at Salient AI (Series B, a16z)
• Taylor Haggard — founding GTM LaunchDarkly, Intercom, Metronome
  → Founding GTM at Cursor
• Jet Semrick — CTO Avallon AI (YC X25)
  → Field Engineer at Cursor
• Owais Khan — first marketer at Notion, cofounder Metaplane (YC20, acq. by Datadog)
  → Growth lead at Black Forest Labs
• Cody Wong — former Figma, Google SWE
  → Software Engineer at Vercel
• Jon Sheller — former EM Scale AI, WhatsApp; co-founder/CTO Purpose Finance
  →  Engineering Manager at Nuvo (Series B, Sequoia/General Catalyst)
• Chinmay Shah — former co-founder/CTO Arrowhead
  →  AI engineer at Salient AI (Series B, a16z)
• Ruta Joshi — former ML researcher at Applied Intuition, Stanford Robotics Lab, advised by Fei-Fei Li.
  →  Senior ML Research Engineer at Hedra (Series A, a16z)
• Ajil Jalal — UT Austin PhD, 3000+ Google Scholar citations
  →  Researcher at Wispr AI (Series B, Menlo/8VC)
• Mac McCann — former Meta, TruckSmarter SWE; Brown CS
  →  Engineer at Nuvo (Series B, Sequoia/General Catalyst)

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