This Week’s Talent Pools

Fluidstack, a nine-year-old New York startup that offers cloud computing services to AI companies, is in talks to raise a $100 million round from Google at a $7.5 billion valuation. The Wall Street Journal has more here.

  1. Peter Francis in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Co-Founder @ Fluidstack (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Undisclosed ($70M+ valuation), Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society

    3. Description: “Exploratory research on accelerating matmuls for AI training, targeting order-of-magnitude improvements without accuracy loss."

    4. [email protected]

Freeform, a Hawthorne, Calif.-based 3D-printing metal manufacturing company, raised $67m in Series B funding. Apandion, AE Ventures, Founders Fund, Linse Capital, NVentures, Threshold Ventures, and Two Sigma Venture participated. axios.link/4qHmxRH

  1. TJ Ronacher in LA (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: President & Co-Founder @ Freeform (6.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: VP Hardware Engineering @ Hyperloop One, Thermal System Lead @ Virgin Galactic, Sr Propulsion Analyst & TPS Engineer @ SpaceX, BS @ UC Berkeley, MS Fluid Mechanics @ UCLA

    3. Description: Left Freeform on 6/25 with no updates

Payments darling Stripe is now valued at $159 billion in a new tender offer, a surge from $107 billion last year.

  1. Arvid Lunnemark in SF (Founder @ Integrous Research)

    1. Role: SWE @ Stripe (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Cursor ($29B valuation), Quant @ Jane Street, SWE @ QuantCo, MIT BS Math + CS

    3. Description: "We are a research lab devoted to protecting individual human freedom before, during, and after the start of the superintelligence era. We believe fundamental, theoretical research is needed. And we think that by the time the superintelligence can do that research for us, it may already be too late."

    4. Contact: arvid.xyz | GH | [email protected]

  2. Stephany Kirkpatrick in NYC (Stealth)

    1. Role: Product @ Stripe (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founder & CEO @ Orum.io ($82M from Accel, BCV, Homebrew, BoxGroup, Primary --> acquired by Stripe)

    3. Description: Stealth since 2/26

    4. Contact: Twitter

  3. Michael Villar in NYC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Engineer & Designer - launched Stripe Checkout, iPhone app, Stripe Atlas, Connect, new Dashboard @ Stripe (4.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: CEO & Founder @ Height ($14M from Redpoint) & Kickoff (acquired by Stripe 2013)

    3. Description: Left Height 4/25 with no updates

    4. Contact: Site | Twitter | [email protected]

  4. Antoine Boulanger in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Engineering Leader & CEO Award Recipient @ Stripe (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CEO @ Okay ($6M from YC, Sequoia, KP – > acquired by Stripe), Senior EM @ Google, Senior Director @ Box

    3. Description: Left Stripe 9/25 with no updates

    4. Contact: Site | Twitter | [email protected]

  5. Lauren Dai in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Corporate Finance, Growth, and BD @ Stripe (4.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & COO @ Cocoon ($26M from Index, First Round, Elad Gil), Analyst @ Goldman Sachs, Harvard BA

    3. Description: EIR since 2/25

  6. Alex MacCaw in Austin (Founder @ Picardo)

    1. Role: Engineer & Early Team @ Stripe (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founder & CEO @ Clearbit ($17M from Bedrock & Battery --> acquired by HubSpot); CEO @ Reflect (5 yrs), Engineer @ Twitter

    3. Description: Stealth since 1/26

    4. Contact: Site | Twitter | [email protected]

  7. Vivek Sharma, Calvin Grunewald, and Tore H in Seattle (Stealth)

    1. Role: Business Lead, Stripe Revenue Suite | VP of Eng, Billing @ Stripe (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Calvin was CTO @ Playco ($100M from Sequoia @ $1B) & Director of Eng @ Meta; Tore was Founding Eng @ Statsig ($150M from Sequoia & Iconiq – > acquired by OpenAI for $1.1B) & SWE @ Meta; Vivek was VP, Horizon @ Meta & Distinguished Engineer, Office 365 @ Microsoft

    3. Description: Stealth since 1/26

  8. David Petrovics in Boulder (Co-Founder & CEO @ Perceptual)

    1. Role: Head of Engineering, Developer Platform @ Stripe (9 yrs)

    2. Description: "Platform for physical AI developers"

  9. Isaac Peters in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Head of AI Development @ Stripe (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Principal AI Engineer @ NVIDIA, Senior SWE @ Palo Alto Networks, Stanford MS CS/AI

    3. Description: "Building something new in AI / Infra."

  10. Martin del Rosario in Seattle (Co-Founder & CEO @ Portare)

    1. Role: Head of Global Payments Performance & Global Partnerships @ Stripe (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Director, Global Head of Payments @ Uber, Director, Global Payments @ Remitly, MIT Sloan

    3. Description: "Making AI commerce work for everyone. Everywhere. Three-letter protocols not required."

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