Hello Codeforces!

To those who are in the SF Bay Area, let's gather for another meetup :)

On Friday, December 4, 5–9 PM, my friends at nFactorial Ventures are hosting their launch party at The House in San Francisco's Presidio. They invest in startups founded by former Olympiaders (ICPC/IOI/IMO/IPhO), and are bringing together 100+ Olympiad alumni, startup founders, AI researchers and investors.

An interesting stat: Deedy Das from Menlo Ventures analyzed around 18,000 IMO/IOI/IPhO medalists over the last 25 years and estimated that they are 4000x more likely to become unicorn founders than the average person.

Speakers:

• Bill Poucher — President of ICPC
• Alex Mashrabov — Founder & CEO of Higgsfield. 2x ACM ICPC World Finalist.
• Nick Davidov — DVC, seed investor in 7 unicorns
• Nikunj Kothari — Partner at FPV Ventures
• Peter Zakin — Partner at Upfront Ventures, Princeton ‘12, YC S10

Besides keynotes, there will be "What? Where? When?" (intellectual team game aka ЧГК), a poker tournament, YPO-style forums in small groups, and, of course, great food and drinks.

If you participated in ICPC, IOI, or other programming competitions and now live in the SF Bay Area, it would be great to see you there!

Apply here: https://nfactorialschool.typeform.com/to/Z2gjwleO

P.S. Feel free to share with your old ICPC/IOI teammates who moved to the Bay Area. Would be fun to see some familiar faces from the old contests :)