Discovering tomorrow’s PayPal Mafia Today
Apr 14, 2026
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Flock Safety’s Founder & CTO + early Flock engineering leaders, Parasail’s founding engineer, and a YC-backed founder (Code Four)
Apr 13, 2026
2 min read
Mintlify’s first engineer, YC-backed founders, Founding Teams from Build & Chapter, and an IMO medalist
Apr 12, 2026
4 min read
Function Health CTO, Getlabs Founder (YC → acquired), Starfish Chief Engineer ($150M+), and SiFive SVP & GM ($3.6B)
Apr 11, 2026
5 min read
Mach Industries CTO, Early Anduril Engineering Leader, senior SpaceX Directors & Leaders, Hermeus Co-Founders, and Stipple Bio’s Co-Founder & CTO
Apr 9, 2026
6 min read
Hermeus Co-Founders & first avionics hire turned YC-backed founder, Stipple Bio’s Co-Founder & CT), and early Sarvam AI & AfterQuery team
Apr 7, 2026
Serial CTO behind BuildOps (>$200M from Founders Fund), SpaceX Dragon & Falcon Senior Directors, Relativity’s former SVP of Manufacturing, YC founders, and a Shield AI engineering leader turned founder
Apr 6, 2026
8 min read
Shield AI’s Co-CTO, 14-year SpaceX Director, Starlink engineering leads, founders of $100M+ startups, and Anduril leaders building next-gen space and autonomy startups
Apr 5, 2026
Veteran SpaceX engineers and Starlink directors, ex–Anduril/Mach leaders, Founders Fund & Khosla-backed founding employees, and repeat YC Founders building in space and defense
Founding MTS @ Physical Intelligence, Mistral researchers from DeepMind, OpenAI, and Meta FAIR, WHOOP CTO, Saronic robotics architect, and Mercury founders with exits to Chime and GM
