Silicon Valley Fellowship

THE SILICON VALLEY FELLOWSHIP FALL 2025 BATCH APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN 🇺🇸 Join us in San Francisco from October 8 to 12 for five packed days that will make you a Silicon Valley insider👀 We are shaping the next entrepreneurial and academic class.

What do a software engineer, a proptech founder, and a fintech builder have in common? In @ribi86’s case, they’re all the same person. In this podcast episode, he walks us through the highs and lows of his journey, including losing his job in 2009, bootstrapping his first…

In Silicon Valley, the game is fierce, but it’s played face forward. Even when investors are sitting on opposite sides of competing deals, the unspoken code is clear: act with integrity, maintain professionalism, and play the long game. Silicon Valley has a culture built on…

In his talk to our Spring 2025 Fellows, James Mister, advisor to unicorns, governments, and accelerators, covered everything from why Munich is OpenAI’s new playground to how vacation policies in Europe might be the real barrier to innovation. James worked with Slack, Apple,…

Indian software engineer Soham Parekh has become the center of a storm: Silicon Valley is split. Some call him a fraud. Others, a genius. Yesterday, in an interview with @tbpn, he broke his silence. The money, he said, never mattered. He was all in to build something meaningful.…

.@Seba_Bea, product manager at @lyft, broke down how metrics shape the way teams build, communicate, and sometimes mislead during his talk to our Winter 2025 Fellows. Drawing from his experience across hardware, blockchain, and now ridesharing, he shares why choosing the right…

Ahora sí, se viene el segundo evento de Silicon Valley Fellowship Mission to Argentina. 📅 Sábado 5 de julio, 20hs 📍 Paisanos HQ, Buenos Aires Traemos a 🇦🇷 la mentalidad de Silicon Valley: pensar sin límites y crear productos con impacto global.

LinkedIn’s first thousand users came from employee invites. But that wasn’t enough. The real unlock came when they pioneered something new: address book uploads. Letting users instantly see who else was already on the platform changed everything. Suddenly, people had a reason…

Before @BeReal_App hit 10 million daily users, @AndreaaMach was walking door-to-door in Milan trying to convince restaurants to join Eat Joy, his first startup and a food subscription service, right as COVID hit. In his talk to our Winter 2025 Fellows, he shares how that failure…

great Silicon Valley Fellowship Mission to Argentina event with tens of amazing founders and technical builders Argentina energy is strong

If you’ve ever felt lost about what comes next, Alberto Salamone gets it, and you’re not alone. Speaking to our Summer 2024 fellows, Alberto shared the unexpected journey that took him from quitting a PhD in optoelectronics to leading companies through mergers, private equity…

I am so incredibly proud of the amazing community of builders we are building in Argentina. There are so many amazing people, and right now, it feels like a country that just can't stop winning! 🇦🇷

When you join a board, you shouldn't give advice from day one: you have to learn the business first. Due diligence memos don't give you real insights. You need to see how the team responds under pressure, where the real bottlenecks are, and how the company operates through…

What does finance actually do at a company like @Uber? Antonio Signorelli, who works at Strategic Finance there, broke it down to our Spring 2025 Fellows. From forecasting and investor calls to real-time business decisions and advising on product strategy, it’s a lot more…