Upcoming Events: Investing in Venture, Product/Eng Salons & a Deep dive into DeepSeek

In Silicon Valley, change happens at the speed of thought - or atleast, at the speed of a frantically-coded algorithm. One moment you’re disrupting the industry with your groundbreaking idea, and the next, you’re as obsolete as a floppy disk in a world of cloud storage. The valley’s mantra might as well be “It takes change to make change”, a phrase so delightfully circular it could power a perpetual motion machine.

Here, the future arrives faster than a Series A funding found, leaving entrepreneurs in a constant state of whiplash. You might invent the next big foundational model over your morning coffee, only to find out by lunchtime a smart Chinese engineer has already made it smaller, faster, and cheaper. It’s a place where fortunes rise and fall faster than a Bitcoin rollercoaster, and where today’s visionary CEO is tomorrow’s cautionary TED talk.

Highlight of events this week from Founders Creative

• Investing in AI Startups: Live Networking

  Friday Jan 31st 2pm-3:30pm PT, Palo Alto

  Progressive Ventures’ second cohort in venture fellowship is off to a great start last week with 16 partners learning all about venture capital. If you are looking to make a break into venture capital, and start investing and learning, join our event tomorrow to find out how.
  Register: https://lu.ma/2vo0qo8f

• AI Product Salon: 2025 AI Trends and what it means for Product Leaders

  Friday Jan 31st 3:30-15pm PT, Palo Alto

  In the new era of AI, the Product Management function is leading cutting edge innovation, weaving in the latest technologies into products.

  ​​Join fellow product management professionals for thought leadership conversations in this new era

  Register: https://lu.ma/uxzyrcmf

• Deeper into DeepSeek

  Feb 1 11:30-12:30pm PT, Online

  ​Join us for a deep dive into the DeepSeek paper and understand the hype behind it. You can find the paper here.

  Register: https://lu.ma/deepseek(online)

• AI Engineering Salon: DeepSeek, the new paradigm in foundational models

  Feb 7 12-1:30pm, Palo Alto

  Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with fellow AI engineers, researchers, and technical leaders as we explore the new paradigm in foundational models.

  Register: https://lu.ma/engsalon3

In other great news, our website is finally up: https://www.founderscreative.org/