Founder190Current founder
94th percentile
Investor23Current investor
68th percentile
Combined
3x YC founder with Facebook, Twitter, and SumUp exits; now building at SPC
Credibility
this founder typical founder (50th pct)
Technical Depth · 97th percentile
- Named inventor on 13 US patents (8 granted) assigned to Facebook, including 'Infinite Scrolling' — a deep technical/invention signal.
- Ranked #1 on the HN Tokenmaxxing 28-day leaderboard with 48.0B tokens.
- Listed on the HN Tokenmaxxing leaderboard as an active heavy LLM-tooling user.
- Demonstrates personal technical depth in HN comments on ML facial recognition deployment, photo pipeline architecture, and product instrumentation tradeoffs.
- Currently shipping public code (most recent push 0 days ago to repo 'knightwatch-kid').
- Identified GitHub account @srosro linked from his personal site sam.odio.com.
- Tenured GitHub account, created in 2009 (~17 years old).
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Y Combinator alum across multiple batches: Divvyshot (W09) and Freshplum (S11).
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Identified Hacker News account @Sam_Odio.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Six HN posts have scored 100+ points, indicating repeated front-page virality and community reach.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Active on Hacker News with 4,506 karma over ~19 years.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)southparkcommons.com ranks #462,481 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past founder of Divvyshot (YC W09, acquired by Facebook) and Freshplum (YC S11, acquired by TellApart/Twitter).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Active Hacker News poster with 287 story posts.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Top HN post 'Use Jonathan's card to buy yourself an iPad' reached 234 points.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Identified GitHub account @srosro linked from his personal site sam.odio.com.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Tenured GitHub account, created in 2009 (~17 years old).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)1,537 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Named inventor on 13 US patents.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Ranked #1 on the HN Tokenmaxxing 28-day leaderboard with 48.0B tokens.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Fivestars (where he led the pivot to payments hardware as VP/Head of Product) exited to SumUp for $320M.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Listed on the HN Tokenmaxxing leaderboard as an active heavy LLM-tooling user.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Currently shipping public code (most recent push 0 days ago to repo 'knightwatch-kid').
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Deep domain expertise in payments and small-business commerce, having led Fivestars' pivot to credit-card hardware processing $500M+ in GMV.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Co-founded Freshplum with a co-founder team.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Demonstrates personal technical depth in HN comments on ML facial recognition deployment, photo pipeline architecture, and product instrumentation tradeoffs.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Raised $2.5M for Freshplum across 2 funding rounds.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Currently building a new venture as a South Park Commons member, per his HN bio: "Now starting something new".
Investor score
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Publicly identified as an angel investor across multiple profiles.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Has made ~8 publicly cited startup investments per Startup Intros.
What you likely need
You're a 3x YC founder with three acquisitions (Facebook, Twitter, SumUp) now in build mode at South Park Commons and going deep on LLM tooling (ranked #1 on HN Tokenmaxxing). The most valuable Festival events for you right now are small, high-signal gatherings where you can pressure-test your next AI product thesis with peers, line up seed conversations on your terms, and assemble a founding team. Lean into rooms that mix SPC builders, YC alumni, and AI-infra investors.
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.
- positioningAn SPC member dinner to pressure-test 2-3 AI productivity product theses with other in-build founders before committing to a wedge.Possibly
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- tacticalAn HN Tokenmaxxing top-10 roundtable to swap agentic-coding workflows and prompt/tool stacks with other heavy LLM operators.Definitely
- hiringA Dropbox + Facebook alumni happy hour to recruit a founding engineer for your new venture from people who've shipped at scale.Possibly
- introsA payments/fintech operators dinner drawing on your Fivestars/SumUp playbook for builders thinking about merchant SMB GTM.
- fundraisingAn AI-focused seed fund office-hours night (Conviction, South Park Capital, SV Angel) tailored to a pre-product 3x exited founder.Probably
- wellbeingA second-time-founders wellbeing dinner on staying grounded as a husband/father while restarting the 0-to-1 grind.Definitely
- positioningA small positioning workshop for ex-Big-Tech AI product leaders translating ML invention experience into a defensible startup wedge.Possibly