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Tech salary transparency platform
Levels.fyi is a salary transparency and career platform for the technology industry, providing crowdsourced compensation data, job level comparisons across companies, and negotiation services.[1]...
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thirdweb is a web3 development platform that provides tools for building decentralized applications, deploying smart contracts, and integrating blockchain functionality into software products.[1] It...
Read articleOpen-source real-time communication platform
LiveKit is an open-source platform for building real-time audio, video, and data communication into applications.[1][5] Founded in 2021 by Russ d'Sa and David Zhao, the company reached a $1 billion...
Read articleGaming media and tools company
Curse, Inc. (later Curse LLC) was a gaming media and technology company founded in 2006 by Hubert Thieblot, who now serves as General Partner at Founders, Inc. (f.inc).[1][6] At its peak, Curse's...
Read articleMobile advertising technology company
AppLovin Corporation is a mobile advertising technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.[1][2] Founded in 2012 by Adam Foroughi, Andrew Karam, and John Krystynak, the company operates...
Read articleGrowth marketer
Dante Lentini is the Growth and Go-to-Market (GTM) lead at Founders, Inc. (f.inc), a venture firm and founder campus at Fort Mason in San Francisco.[1][4] Lentini attended NYU Tandon School of...
Read articlePrograms and storytelling lead
Aiden Blumenstein is the Head of Programs and Storytelling at Founders, Inc. (f.inc), a venture firm and founder campus at Fort Mason in San Francisco.[1][4] Blumenstein attended Northeastern...
Read articleInvestor and former founder
Ruslan Al-Jabari is the lead investor at Founders, Inc. (f.inc), a venture firm and founder campus at Fort Mason in San Francisco.[1][2] He is the core investment decision maker alongside founder...
Read articleEcosystem lead and investor
Adrianna Lakatos is the Ecosystem Lead at Founders, Inc. (f.inc), where she manages portfolio and ecosystem growth for the venture firm's investments in AI, hardware, robotics, and emerging...
Read articleOperations manager
Shafaq Ahmed is the Head of Operations at Founders, Inc. (f.inc), a venture firm and founder campus at Fort Mason in San Francisco.[1][4] She is based in San Jose, California.[3] Ahmed attended San...
Read articleHospitality and operations professional
Kiran Khanzada is a member of the Founder Experience team at Founders, Inc. (f.inc), a venture firm and founder campus at Fort Mason in San Francisco.[1] She also holds the title of Head of...
Read articleVenture firm and founder campus in San Francisco
Founders, Inc. (also known as f.inc) is a venture firm and founder campus based at Fort Mason in San Francisco, California.[1] Founded in 2020 by Furqan Rydhan, the firm writes first checks ranging...
Read articleCreative director and designer
Stavan Patel is the Creative Director and Partner at Founders, Inc. (f.inc), where he leads content and storytelling for the venture firm.[2][4][5] He was previously part of the founding team at...
Read articleEntrepreneur and venture operator
Joher Khan is an entrepreneur and venture operator. He was one of the first people brought onto the Founders, Inc. (f.inc) team by founder Furqan Rydhan, where he held the title of Founder...
Read articleFrench entrepreneur and investor
Hubert Thieblot (born December 8, 1984) is a French entrepreneur and investor. He is a General Partner at Founders, Inc. (f.inc), which he joined in April 2022.[3][4] He previously founded Curse,...
Read articleOperations executive and entrepreneur
Mike Shin is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Founders, Inc. (f.inc), a venture firm and founder campus based at Fort Mason in San Francisco.[2] He joined the company in January 2026.[4] Shin...
Read articleEntrepreneur, Investor, Technologist
Furqan Rydhan is a serial entrepreneur and investor based in San Francisco. He is the founder and CEO of Founders, Inc. (f.inc), a venture firm and 42,000-square-foot founder campus at Fort Mason in...
Read articlePatterns from apps at $2M+ ARR and $23+ revenue per download
B2C habit-tracking apps that add social accountability (e.g. shared habits, partner notifications) need an onboarding flow that gets users to a first completion quickly, invests them through...
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Emory Andrew Tate III (born December 1, 1986) is an American-British internet personality, businessman, and former professional kickboxer.[1] He competed in the cruiserweight and light heavyweight...
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Pixero AI is building toward fully autonomous marketing — an AI agent that creates, deploys, tests, and optimizes advertising without human intervention.[1][2] Today, users describe what they need in...
Read articleGen Z dating slang for keeping someone as a backup option
Benching is a dating behavior in which one person maintains intermittent contact with a romantic interest without committing to a relationship, keeping them available as a backup option.[1] The term...
Read articleAncient Greek Cynic philosopher
Diogenes of Sinope (c. 412–323 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy, a school that held virtue to be the only good and regarded social conventions —...
Read articleDutch rationalist philosopher
Baruch (Benedict) de Spinoza (1632–1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin whose posthumously published Ethics (1677) presented a complete metaphysical system in the form of...
Read articleFrench existentialist philosopher and feminist writer
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (1908–1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, novelist, and social theorist whose 1949 treatise The Second Sex laid the intellectual...
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