Surreal June: Engineers, Cofounders, & Prototypes

​Making the surreal, real.

​​​​​​Join us for a gathering of the Surreal community - engineers, designers, PMs and researchers.

​​This is a casual social gathering designed to foster meaningful connections. Many of you have told us you’re looking for cofounders or first partners, so this event will be a great place to share what you’re working on, show others your latest prototype, hire engineers, get feedback from technical peers, and have office hours with Vanessa and I. Come prepared to share one thing you believe, that might sound surreal.

​Past attendees have hailed from Stanford PhDs, Perplexity, TikTok, OpenAI, Meta, X.Ai, Eventbrite, Glean, Rippling, Vercel, Twitch, Typeface, Weights, Fizz, Apple, Google Gemini, Jane Street, Microsoft, Coactive, Nvidia, Adept, Databricks, Orby, Retool, Tesla, Deepmind, 11X, Replit, Character AI, Microsoft, Amazon, Harvey, Humane, Mistral, Figma, Roblox, Grammarly, Notion, and more. 

​​​Surreal

• ​​​​​​Surreal products are created when a research breakthrough rapidly meets a consumer behavior shift.

• ​​​​​​The speed of this latent unlock creates a reality distortion field, a narrative violation.

• ​​​​​​It's not just improbable, it seems impossible.

• ​​​​​​The premise is first questioned, then fought, and then shaken.

• ​​​​​​But then a small group of people finds your work - and it's what they've been looking for their whole life.

• ​​​​​​They fought and clawed for an answer despite the experts' heeding that it wasn't possible.

• ​​​​​​And then they met you. Your research redefines what's possible.

• ​​​​​​You make the surreal, real.

​​​​​​“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” - Arthur C. Clarke

​​​​​Learn more about Surreal events here: surrealbuilders.com