1/ We're on the precipice of the most fundamental computing revolution I've seen in my life. You should have FOMO. Don't waste it in local maxima. The $1M @southpkcommons Founder Fellowship application is open. Here’s what it takes to build at venture-scale in the age of AI:
2/ Counterintuitively, as execution speeds up with AI it's more important to take time finding an idea worth building. Why? It's easy to vibe-code your way into a bit of traction, a design partner desperate to add AI, some funding after your first MRR. But then...
3/ It's easier than you think to get other people to believe in an idea before you do. And it's harder than you think to pivot after you sell others on a vision you don't believe.
Ruchi Sanghvi
Ruchi Sanghvi31.1.2025
The worst thing that can happen to your startup isn't failure. It's succeeding at building something small after taking venture funding. You should be more afraid of local maxima.
4/ The ideas that will become huge venture-scale companies now are not the kind that dominated the SaaS or Mobile eras. They’re not legible execution plays or software eating legacy businesses or AI replacing obvious manual processes (I have heard this SO MANY TIMES).
5/ The interesting opportunities are the illegible ones. High technical risk, high market risk. Asymmetric risk and reward. Hardware, foundation models, new consumer companies that make no sense unless you’re AI-native. Crazy, heretical ideas.
6/ This is the fundamental reason @southpkcommons is the best place to start a company if your goal is asymmetric impact: Patient capital in a program designed to help you find your global maximum, not bind you to what you wrote in an application.
7/ Patient capital doesn’t mean go slow. We help you take your time, quickly. We love founders with high clock speeds and urgency, but also the desire to find something truly worthy of their abilities and ambition.
8/ We designed the @southpkcommons Founder Fellowship for the most ambitious founders going after illegible opportunities. Most fellows are pre-revenue, pre-product, & pre-idea. And SPC is the most talent-dense early-stage environment around.
9/ We’ve been helping founders go from -1 to 0 for nearly a decade now @southpkcommons. Our approach works. Ask the founders of @LumaLabsAI, @MeetGamma, @basetenco, @DoppelHQ, @tryprofound, @DeepCogito, @comunappusa, @useOrb, and so many more.
10/ Here’s what @southpkcommons Founder Fellowship teams get: 💰$1M in funding 🤝Bespoke partner support, small cohort, open timeline 🚀SPC community membership, offices & programming
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