Hi! Welcome to Day Zero. Excited to bring this community to life in San Francisco.

What is Day Zero?

I started Day Zero as a place to bring together early stage founders that just started their companies & operators looking to start their next company or looking to join what is next.

The goals of Day Zero is:

• Attract top emerging founder talent in the SF Bay Area

• Support early builders with community, access, and early-stage funding opportunities

• Host IRL gatherings to build authentic relationships among the next generation of founders

• Help top operators find their next moves and connect them to the best founders

Day Zero People to Meet in SF

Tom Charman - CEO of Blok: Tom just raised $7.5m to help product teams move faster, with fewer mistakes. Blok is a simulation environment for digital products. Instead of waiting weeks to A/B test with real users, teams can test changes in hours, using AI-powered simulated users that behave like the real thing. Less risk. Faster insight. Smarter product decisions. He is looking to hire folks. Reach out to him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/tcharman/ 

Shantanu Ray - Shantanu is an operator/ product designer looking for his next opportunity. He is a product designer who cares about making things that are simple, useful, and actually enjoyable to use. He’s worked on AI tools, sales platforms, and startup ecosystems, always trying to cut through the noise and focus on what really matters. He’s looking for fast-moving teams where he can own core parts of the product and help build something people want. Reach out: [email protected]

Andrew Tan - Andrew is an exited founder, AI researcher from Stanford/Berkeley, and previously worked at Google AI, Citadel, AQR, Branch, and Sequoia. He writes the biggest AI newsletter (TLDR AI) with 850,000+ readers and actively angel invests in AI companies. Andrew has invested in companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Pika, Mercury, Replit, Runway ML, Pinecone, Coframe, Chroma, Gumloop, Haize Labs, Mercor, Etched, Goodfire AI, Decagon, and more. He’s looking for other cracked engineers to build with and invest in! You can reach him at https://linkedin.com/in/andrewztan and https://twitter.com/andrewztan.

Want to Be Highlighted?

Every issue we’ll be highlighting some of the top folks we meet in SF. If you want to be featured, submit your info here.

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