What does it mean to be a super{set} co-founder and who do we look for? Why is the Head of Product the first co-founder we bring on board? Tom and Vivek share what they look for in a Head of Product co-founder and why that is the first hire they make when a new company is out of the gate at super{set}. They are then joined by Pankaj Rajan, co-founder at MarkovML, for a Q&A on his background, why he joined MarkovML, and his experience at super{set} so far.

This post was written by Ketch Solutions Engineer, Sahiti Surapaneni, as part of our #PassTheMic series. Very early in my career, I was invited to a large meeting of executives. I was thrilled. I felt like I was being recognized and had a real opportunity to showcase my value. I…

Coming up with new company ideas is easy: we take the day off, go to the park, and let the thoughts arrive like butterflies. Maybe we grab a coconut from that guy for a little buzz. While this describes a pleasant day in San Francisco, it couldn’t be further from…

When a VC decides to invest in a company, they write up a document called the “Investment Memo” to convince their partners that the decision is sound. This document is a thorough analysis of the startup — team, product, customers, market, and competition — and the rationale behind why there…

In our last post, we discussed how data is the new general-purpose technology and that is why at super{set} we form data-driven companies from scratch. But new technologies are a promise, not a sudden phase change. Take electrification. When the first electric motors came out, factory owners took the easy…

The wheel. Electricity. The automobile. These are technologies that had a disproportionate impact on the merits of their first practical use-case; but beyond that, because they enabled so much in terms of subsequent innovation, economic historians call them “general-purpose technologies” or GPTs. The automobile did not just replace the horse-and-buggy…

This post was written by MarkovML Co-Founder, Lindsey Meyl, as part of our #PassTheMic series. Around the end of 2021, I gave birth to my second child and became a co-founder of my software start-up, MarkovML. The popular narrative says that these two life developments sit in tension with each…

Where do the ideas come from? How do we build companies from scratch at super{set}? Tom and Vivek detail what they mean by “data-driven” formation ideas and how the super{set} startup studio has a reproducible process to gain conviction before writing a single line of code. Good ideas are hard work. Nobody plucks tech startup ideas out of the air like butterflies. Ideas actualize over time. It takes hard work and persistence to ideate a new formation opportunity that actually has the wherewithal to become a company.

What’s a startup studio? Is it just “venture capital” with another name? Tom and Vivek dig into the startup studio model being deployed at super{set} and working with co-founders on new data-driven companies. It’s still early for the studio model — case in point, people still are asking “you have a fund right? Aren’t you just a venture capital firm with a different label?” Tom and Vivek detail just what we’re doing at super{set} — what the model is, how we’re different from…