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Founder224Current founder
96th percentile
Investor33Current investor
74th percentile
Combined
Rippling co-founder (CTO) and angel investor now building 0xPPL
Credibility
this founder typical founder (50th pct)
Operator · 98th percentile
- Current founder of 0xPPL, a decentralized social network for crypto natives.
- Rippling is a Y Combinator Winter 2017 alumnus.
- YouTube interview 'RIPPLING CO-FOUNDER PRASANNA SANKAR' has ~315,449 views — strong thought-leadership reach.
- Past co-founder of Rippling (2016–2020) and Likealittle (2009–2013).
- Rippling was co-founded with at least one other co-founder.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Rippling is a Y Combinator Winter 2017 alumnus.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)29,793 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current founder of 0xPPL, a decentralized social network for crypto natives.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past co-founder of Rippling.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Rippling last raised at a ~$16B valuation (still-private unicorn).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Rippling was co-founded with at least one other co-founder.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Identified Hacker News account @myprasanna with 331 karma.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Rippling has $2.9B in total funding across 13 rounds, demonstrating significant venture scale.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)HN karma of 331.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)GitHub account is over 5 years old (created January 2010, ~16 years).
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Posted two Show HN product launches on Hacker News, demonstrating builder activity.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)One HN post scored 74 points (front-paged), showing community reach.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Identified GitHub account @myprasanna (Prasanna Sankaranarayanan).
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)YouTube interview 'RIPPLING CO-FOUNDER PRASANNA SANKAR' has ~315,449 views — strong thought-leadership reach.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Prasanna Sankar has a Wikidata / Wikipedia-level notability signal (LikeALittle has a Wikipedia article).
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Featured in a TechCrunch article on the Spearhead program, a tier-1 outlet profile.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)HN comments show domain expertise in crypto/blockchain infrastructure and startup operations, including early Bitcoin analysis and YC founder context.
Investor score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Publicly identified as an angel investor, per LinkedIn headline and multiple sources.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Has made at least 3 confirmed investments: Emergent, Zamp, and Doola.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Participated in the Spearhead program (AngelList/Naval Ravikant), confirming active GP/fund-manager status with dedicated capital to deploy.
What you likely need
As the technical co-founder of a $16B+ unicorn and a current founder of a crypto-native social app, you'd benefit most from events that connect you with late-stage operators who've navigated the founder-to-investor transition and with crypto/web3 builders at the frontier. Your angel investing activity and Spearhead background also make high-signal investor dinners — especially those focused on seed-stage AI and crypto infrastructure — a natural fit.
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 unicorn-founder dinner with other $1B+ company co-founders to share playbooks on scaling engineering orgs and navigating co-founder dynamics.
- fundraisingA YC W17 alumni roundtable to reconnect with batchmates and explore warm intros to Series A/B funds for 0xPPL's next raise.
- tacticalA crypto/web3 founder happy hour with builders working on onchain social and DeFi infrastructure to pressure-test 0xPPL's product roadmap.
- introsAn angel investor seed-stage roundtable with other Spearhead and AngelList alumni to co-invest in AI and crypto infrastructure deals.
- positioningA technical founder/CTO dinner for engineers-turned-CEOs to discuss the transition from hands-on coding to company leadership at scale.
- tacticalAn HR-tech operator office hours session with Rippling alumni and competitors to benchmark go-to-market strategies for global workforce platforms.
- wellbeingA founder wellbeing peer group for high-profile founders navigating personal and public pressures while running high-growth companies.