Vas and Felix meeting Jensen Huang
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Seoul

Bay Areatrip finished

Vas and Felix, in the Bay Area.

From Singapore, first time in the US. Two weeks here, meeting the people worth meeting.

  • Raising money
  • Building the next business OS
  • Connect over coffee

18:40 → 23:55Seoul → Singapore — KE645, home 23:55Incheon T2 → Changi T4

The days

Wed 30 Sep

16 / 16
Done

Tue 15 SepDay

Last day in Singapore — pack and send the messages

Singapore · Singapore

Nothing in San Francisco today — the flight leaves tomorrow night. Use it to work the Before-you-fly list.

Done

Wed 16 Sep22:00

Fly Singapore → Seoul — KE644

Changi T4 → Incheon T2 · Travel

Depart Changi 22:00, land Seoul 05:35. Long Incheon layover before the SFO leg at 16:00.

Done

Thu 17 SepArrival day

Arrive in San Francisco — first builder conversations

San Francisco · San Francisco

Landed in the Bay Area and entered a community where builders, projects, and relationships grow through repeated proximity.

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  • Also that dayAgent Infra — panel + network night17:00 · AWS Builder LoftDetails
  • Backuptiat CIMC showcase opening151 PowellDetails
Done

Fri 18 SepEvening

Side Project Party III

San Francisco · San Francisco

Conversations on startup distribution, finance-AI evaluation, and governed agent systems.

Event page
  • BackupBuild an AI Startup in One Day9:30 all day · ~AWS LoftDetails
Done

Sat 19 Sep11:00–17:00

Hack for Humanity — built SF Help Finder

Entrepreneurs First · SoMa

Built SF Help Finder with Vas at a civic AI hackathon.

Event page
  • Published reflectionHack for Humanity / SF Help FinderDetails
  • BackupDream AI Hackathon9:00–21:00 · Frontier Tower, 995 MarketDetails
Done

Sun 20 SepDay

RSI House — verification and recursive research

Antler · San Francisco

Explored formal verification, OpenMath Six Hills, and systems that improve research loops.

Event context
  • BackupSF AI Code & Coffee14:00 · Salesforce Park, 425 MissionDetails
Done

Mon 21 Sep16:00–21:00

Battle of the Personal Brains

Bright Data · South Beach

Explored governed memory, provenance, corrections, and permission boundaries with Cognee, AWS Strands, Docker Sandboxes, and Bright Data.

Event page
  • BackupThe Korea Playbook for Bay Area Physical AI Founders17:00 · SFDetails
Done

Tue 22 SepDay

Rows & Columns — the modern data stack

Contemporary Jewish Museum · SoMa

Learned how operational data moves from Postgres through CDC into ClickHouse, Iceberg, graph systems, and real-time product APIs.

Event site
  • BackupAI Governance After Hours18:00–20:30 · Downtown San FranciscoDetails
Done

Wed 23 Sep18:00 cocktails / 19:00 doors

Pitch Roast Live — SF debut

Public Works · Mission

A room bringing founders, investors, and sharp product criticism together.

Event page
  • BackupFoundry Day11:00 · AWS Loft, 525 MarketDetails
Done

Thu 24 SepDay → 18:00–21:00

Stanford and Palo Alto → French Tech at Snowflake

Stanford, Palo Alto, then Snowflake / SVAI Hub · Peninsula / Menlo Park

A deliberate Silicon Valley day: Stanford and Palo Alto by day, then product, operator, and investor conversations at Snowflake.

Official event page
  • BackupStanford and Palo Alto fieldworkDay · Stanford / Palo AltoDetails
Done

Fri 25 SepAfternoon / evening

SF founder-city and photography field route

Mid-Market → Market Street → South Park → SoMa · San Francisco

Document the physical city beneath startup mythology: working buildings, public spaces, warehouses, construction, and Caltrain arrivals.

Live event calendar
  • BackupPresidio → Golden Gate → Crissy FieldBest clear-weather afternoon · Presidio / Crissy FieldDetails
Done

Sat 26 Sep09:00 → Sun 27, 17:00

The Agent Arena Hackathon

San Francisco · San Francisco

A two-day build focused on production agent infrastructure and a concrete working artefact.

Event page
  • BackupFresh builder-room sweepDay · San FranciscoDetails
Done

Sun 27 SepDay 2

Agent Arena — day 2

San Francisco · San Francisco

Stay with one team through the final build, demo, and conversations.

Event page
  • BackupSunday builder-room refreshDay · San FranciscoDetails
Done

Mon 28 Sep11:30–17:20

Mountain View and Stanford — final Silicon Valley field day

Computer History Museum → Stanford · Mountain View / Stanford

Close the trip with product and operational conversations in Mountain View, then a public Stanford seminar.

ThinkingAI details
  • BackupPack and close the tripDay · San FranciscoDetails
Done

Tue 29 Sep12:50

Fly home — KE024 San Francisco → Seoul

SFO International · Travel

Depart 12:50, land Incheon 17:20 the next day. Pack the night before.

Done

Wed 30 Sep18:40 → 23:55

Seoul → Singapore — KE645, home 23:55

Incheon T2 → Changi T4 · Travel

Depart Incheon 18:40, land Singapore 23:55. Trip ends.

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What we're here for
Us

Who you are talking to

  • Vasanth Sreeram

    Vasanth Sreeram

    Builds AI products and the systems under them

    • Raising
    • AI products
    • Business OS

    I build AI products end to end: the product, the agents behind it, and the infrastructure they run on. In the Bay Area to raise for what we are building and to find the people worth building it with. Everything I ship is written up at vasanth.cloud.

    vasanth.cloud
  • Felix

    Felix

    Governance and AI governance

    • Governance
    • AI governance

    Out here for the two weeks, and for what comes after them: a role he can do from anywhere, or one that puts him back in the Bay. Governance and AI governance are the work.

Thank you

Thanks, Nihaal, Jack and Koushik.

The three of them put the two of us up in the Bay Area for the whole trip. Super kind of them.

Nihaal Manaf, one of our hostsWhat Nihaal is buildingHide