Discovering tomorrow’s PayPal Mafia Today
Apr 13, 2026
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Mintlify’s first engineer, YC-backed founders, Founding Teams from Build & Chapter, and an IMO medalist
Apr 12, 2026
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Function Health CTO, Getlabs Founder (YC → acquired), Starfish Chief Engineer ($150M+), and SiFive SVP & GM ($3.6B)
Apr 11, 2026
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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
Apr 1, 2026
Mercury leaders with multiple exits (Chime, GM, Treehouse), repeat YC-backed founding engineers, early members of Anthropic-acquired Coefficient AI, and a GC-backed founding engineer
