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77th percentile
Co-founder and CEO of NYSE-listed nuclear energy company Oklo, YC S14 alum
Credibility
Traction · 81th percentile
- Oklo went public via a de-SPAC transaction and is now listed on public markets (NYSE: OKLO), with $850.3M in total funding raised prior to and through the IPO.
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current co-founder and CEO of Oklo Inc., a role he has held since founding the company in 2013.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Oklo is a Y Combinator Summer 2014 alumnus.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Oklo was co-founded with Caroline Cochran, confirming the company had co-founders.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Oklo went public via a de-SPAC transaction and is now listed on public markets (NYSE: OKLO), with $850.3M in total funding raised prior to and through the IPO.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)oklo.com ranks #172,570 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
What you likely need
You're a publicly traded nuclear CEO riding the biggest energy tailwind in a decade, so the highest-value Festival moments are warm-room intros to hyperscaler infrastructure leads and DoD energy buyers who can sign long-term offtake agreements. You also benefit from tight peer gatherings with other public-company founders navigating IR, regulatory, and political scrutiny simultaneously — people who've been in the room and can share hard-won playbooks. Rounding that out, curated talent and recovery touchpoints will help you build the team and headspace to execute at the pace Oklo's pipeline demands.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA closed dinner with infrastructure and energy procurement leads from Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Amazon to explore always-on clean baseload power purchase agreements for AI data center campuses — a direct path to Oklo's first hyperscaler offtake deal
- tacticalA roundtable with DoD energy office leads, DARPA program managers, and DoE advanced reactor contacts to convert Oklo's May 2025 Oval Office visibility into concrete forward-operating-base and remote-installation power contracts
- hiringA hiring mixer co-hosted with MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering, University of Florida, and Idaho National Laboratory PhD candidates to build Oklo's direct recruiting pipeline into the next generation of nuclear engineers
- positioningA dinner for recently-IPO'd deep-tech and energy founders — including YC alumni who've gone public — to share hard-won playbooks on ESG investor narratives, short-seller pressure, and tying mission-driven positioning to public-market equity differentiation
- fundraisingA tactical roundtable with advanced fission fuel suppliers, DOE national lab commercialization leads, and energy investors to identify and fast-track HALEU supply agreements that de-risk Oklo's growing commercial reactor pipeline beyond the existing Idaho National Laboratory award
- tacticalA dinner with nuclear regulatory counsel, energy policy advisors, and in-country operators active in Canada, Singapore, and Ireland to accelerate Oklo's international advanced fission licensing filings and lock in first-mover advantage before competitors arrive
- wellbeingA small YC alumni offsite for public-company CEOs — think S14/W15/S16 batch founders now running scaled orgs — focused on protected strategic thinking time, peer accountability, and sustainable performance under simultaneous regulatory, political, and market scrutiny