FounderCoHo

New FounderCoHo Podcast Episode is Live! 👇

In our latest episode, Brendan Marshall (Managing Director @StartX) discusses the shift from the Attention Economy to the Coherence Economy.

Key highlights:
- The Coherence Economy: AI curates choices aligned with your goals—not your attention.
- Share Your “Beta”: Exchange hard-won insights with peers ahead of you.
- Build a “Mini-Board”: Lean on a trusted peer circle to pressure-test decisions.
- Lead Through the Unknown: Adapt fast instead of clinging to outdated playbooks.

1 month ago | [YT] | 1

FounderCoHo

Most of FounderCoHo YouTube content is more structured

On X, I’ve been sharing more “in-the-moment” founder thinking
(what I’m trying, what’s breaking, what’s changing)

(like this ↓)
x.com/jingconan

1 month ago | [YT] | 11

FounderCoHo

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately…

There’s so much content, podcasts, and advice out there. But sometimes real progress just comes from doing. I’m curious, where do you lean? 👇

As a fellow founder, what have you found to be the most rewarding part of your journey?

2 months ago | [YT] | 8

FounderCoHo

Using AI isn’t always smooth.
Sometimes it gives unexpected results.
Sometimes it just… doesn’t get you.
What I’ve noticed is —
the interesting part isn’t when it works, but what we do when it doesn’t.

When your workflow gets stuck while using AI, what do you usually do?

2 months ago | [YT] | 1

FounderCoHo

Hello FounderCoHo Community 👋

We curated a focused list of events our community members are hosting and actively participating in—across AI, startups, and building at the frontier. These aren’t random meetups. They’re high-signal gatherings designed for learning, sharing hard-won insights, and meeting people who are actually building.
Save this for the week. Share it with a fellow founder. We’ll see you there.
(Got an event you’d like help promoting? Or need support with event marketing? Reach us at crew@foundercoho.com)



🔴FounderCoHo : Startup Fundraising in 2026: Building with the End in Mind
Monday, February 23 ⏰ 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM | 📍Stanford, California

Break out of the “too early, come back later” loop — learn what investors really look for, how to design capital strategy early, and how fundraising shapes your M&A path.

Register here: luma.com/dnzgomnh



🟣 Daytona Compute
Sunday, March 8 ⏰ 5:00 PM - Mar 9, 6:00 PM | 📍San Francisco

Daytona — Infrastructure for Massively Parallel RL Rollouts.
Gathers 1,500 builders to shape the future of AI, agents, and next-gen cloud infrastructure.

Register here: luma.com/k6bc82dv?coupon=FOUNDERCOHO2026
Use code FOUNDERCOHO2026 for 30% OFF



🟠 AI+ Renaissance Summit 2026
Sunday, March 15 ⏰ 9:00 AM–6:00 PM (Before GTC) | 📍 San Francisco

Renaissance 2026 — AI+’s flagship summit for founders, researchers, and engineers shaping the future of multimodal intelligence, agents, infrastructure, and robotics.

Secure your spot: luma.com/renaissance26?coupon=FOUNDERCOHO
Use code FOUNDERCOHO for 10% OFF



🟢 Memory Genesis Competition 2026
Feb 1-28 | ⏰9:00 AM - Feb 28, 11:59 PM PST

Build persistent-memory AI. Win $80K+, revenue share, and strategic support from OpenAI.
EverMind’s Memory Genesis Competition — submit by Feb 28, 2026.

For registration and submission of entry : luma.com/n88icl03



🔴 Founder x Investor Mixer
Thursday, March 26 ⏰ 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST | 📍Los Altos Hills, California

An intimate Los Altos reception with Fluxon, Beta University, and FounderCoHo — founders, investors, high-signal networking, and light bites.

Register Here : luma.com/fximixer



🟠 Build What You Love - Women in Tech Hackathon
Saturday, February 14 ⏰9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | 📍San Francisco, California

The largest hybrid AI hackathon for women & non-binary builders — SF + virtual, industry mentorship, Replit & Vercel support, and a custom Kyle Chan grand prize.

Register here: luma.com/ic3l89gi

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FounderCoHo

Welcome to FounderCoHo Community 👋

Each week, we curate a focused list of events our community members are hosting and actively participating in—across AI, startups, and building at the frontier. These aren’t random meetups. They’re high-signal gatherings designed for learning, sharing hard-won insights, and meeting people who are actually building.

Save this for the week. Share it with a fellow founder. We’ll see you there.
(Got an event you’d like help promoting? Or need support with event marketing? Reach us at crew@foundercoho.com)


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🟣 Daytona Compute
Sunday, March 8 ⏰ 5:00 PM - Mar 9, 6:00 PM | 📍San Francisco

​Compute is the conference focused on the new infrastructure layer being built for AI, agents, and the next generation of cloud, bringing together 1,500 builders shaping what comes next.

Register here: luma.com/k6bc82dv
Use code FOUNDERCOHO for Early Bird discount 30% OFF (Discount available until Feb 10)


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🟠 AI+ Renaissance Summit 2026
Sunday, March 15 ⏰ 9:00 AM–6:00 PM (Before GTC) | 📍 San Francisco

Renaissance 2026 is AI+'s flagship summit bringing together the founders, researchers, and engineers shaping the next era of intelligence.

Strategically positioned between GDC and NVIDIA GTC, this event brings AI leaders and builders under one roof to explore breakthroughs in multimodal intelligence, agents, AI infrastructure, and robotics. If you're serious about what's next in AI, you need to be here.

Secure your spot: luma.com/renaissance26
Use code FOUNDERCOHO for 10% OFF


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🟢 Memory Genesis Competition 2026
Feb 1-28 | ⏰9:00 AM - Feb 28, 11:59 PM PST

EverMind’s Memory Genesis Competition challenges developers worldwide to build AI agents, plugins, and OS infrastructure with persistent memory, offering $80,000+ in prizes, revenue sharing, and strategic support from OpenAI. Submit your project online by Feb 28, 2026, with top teams invited to San Francisco for a workshop and awards ceremony.

For registration and submission of entry : luma.com/n88icl03


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🔴 Founder x Investor Mixer
Thursday, March 26 ⏰ 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST | 📍Los Altos Hills, California

Join us for an intimate reception at a private residence in Los Altos, co-hosted by Fluxon, Beta University and FounderCoHo. Meet experienced founders and investors from the SF Bay Area while networking across communities, discovering new opportunities, and enjoying light bites.

Register Here : luma.com/fximixer

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🔵 Cofounder Matching Program 2026 – Startup and Side Project Collaboration
Friday, February 6 ⏰ 8:00–9:30 PM PST | 📍 Virtual

Finding the right cofounder takes more than conversation—it takes collaboration.

This structured two-week program helps you connect with cofounders or early collaborators through short term, high signal projects. You'll pitch your idea, get matched with potential partners, and test real working dynamics through focused trial tasks before deciding to build together.

Register here: luma.com/9lofwcr4

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🟠 Build What You Love - Women in Tech Hackathon
Saturday, February 14 ⏰9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | 📍San Francisco, California

Join the largest hybrid AI hackathon for women and non-binary builders in San Francisco and virtually, featuring mentorship from industry leaders and a custom grand prize jewelry piece by celebrity jeweler Kyle Chan. Supported by partners like Replit and Vercel, this high-energy event empowers participants to turn ideas into prototypes in a collaborative, supportive environment.

Register here: luma.com/ic3l89gi

4 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 2

FounderCoHo

“I laid off 30% of my team and productivity went up 10x”

That line from Xiaoyin Qu, Founder of HeyBoss AI, stops you cold.
In this conversation, she walks through what it actually felt like to scale fast during COVID, then realize the company had to shrink to survive.

No polished hindsight. Just real decisions:
- Pre-product revenue before code.
- Learning to sell when the sales hires failed.
- Scaling a remote team to 60 then cutting deep.
- Rebuilding operations with an AI-native mindset.

If you’re an early-stage founder navigating pressure, pivots, or PMF, this one hits uncomfortably close.

What part of the journey resonated most?

4 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 0

FounderCoHo

Huge congratulations to Anna Goldie and the Ricursive Intelligence team on their $300M Series A at a $4B valuation: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/technology/recursive-ai…

Chips really are the foundation of AI, and Ricursive’s work closing the loop between AI-designed chips and chips that power AI feels like a real step forward for the industry.

We were honored to have Anna on the FounderCoHo podcast, where she shared how her journey and vision for the future.

Watch the full conversation here:
https://youtu.be/nIIizmM7iM4

Respect to Anna, Azalia Mirhoseini, and the entire Ricursive team. Excited to see what they build next.

4 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 2

FounderCoHo

AI security has reached an inflection point.

As models become agents—able to reason, act, and operate autonomously—the risks expand beyond prompts to entire systems.

In our latest conversation, we sat down with Professor Bo Li—Professor at UIUC, MIT TR35 awardee, and co-founder & CEO of Virtue AI—to unpack what trustworthy AI really requires.

Key insights from the discussion:

• Why optimizing for only hallucinations, privacy, or guardrails is insufficient
• How jailbreaks and prompt injections represent AI-native threats
• Why security must operate at the prompt, action, and system level
• What AI security could look like in 3–5 years

Professor Li has spent over a decade shaping how academia, industry, and governments think about adversarial ML—and her message is clear:

AI must be secured end-to-end, by design, with AI-native defenses.

🎥 Watch the full interview here ↓

5 months ago | [YT] | 3

FounderCoHo

One hundred thousand YouTube subscribers.


But that's not the real story.

The real story started in 2023 with small meetups during Jing's startup journey—founders comparing notes, sharing hard truths over coffee.

By 2024, those notes got better. The room got bigger. We moved to Stanford Campus.

Then we hit a "good problem": demand was so high we had to turn away two-thirds of people who wanted to join.

That constraint forced a question: Why limit this magic to one campus?

On January 6th, 2025, we launched our first video podcast with Alice Ou, Founder & CEO of Silicon Valley Circle. It was terrifying.

Eleven months later: 100K YouTube subscribers. 65K Substack readers. 170K+ total community.

𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀:

We sat down with the pioneers shaping our future—from CRISPR co-inventor Le Cong(Stanford Professor) and AlphaChip co-lead Anna Goldie(Founder & CEO of Ricursive Intelligence), Stanford professors Ram Rajagopal (GridCARE), Kuang Xu, and Xiaoliang Qi.

We learned strategic narrative craft from Andy Raskin and design philosophy from Bob Baxley.

We explored the frontier of AI with Wen Sang(Genspark COO), Philip Rathle(Neo4j CTO), Tom Siegel , and Xiaoyin Qu, Carmen Li, Honglei Liu(Co-Founder & CTO at Tofu), Bo Li (Co-Founder at Virtue AI), Alex Yeh(Founder of GMI Cloud), Nazrul Islam (CloudAEye CEO),

We heard from founders who've been in the trenches: Rajat Suri (Lyft & Presto co-founder), Yi Shi, Vlada Bortnik (Marco Polo CEO), Angela Ying, 🍇Soohyun Bae (Podonos CEO), Kisson Lin (Tanka AI CEO), Susan Linwood (ChargePodX CEO), Bruce Wang, Mariane Bekker, Pengpeng Wang(StartX).

Across 40+ events, 6,919 of you joined us in person. Together, we built something bigger than any single conversation.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁? 𝗪𝗲'𝗿𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱.

We're building 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗖𝗼𝗛𝗼 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗽𝗮𝗱—a space for deeper connection, peer problem-solving, and direct access to this founder wisdom.

But we need your input first.

𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀:
1️⃣ Watch our 2025 journey (link in comments) 👇
2️⃣ Take 2 minutes to shape what we build next: tally.so/r/lbqrEp

Accountability partners? Co-founder matching? Expert office hours? In-person retreats? Something else?

Your answers will determine what we create.


Thank you for making 2025 historic. Here's to the next 100K—and to building the future, together.


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