Yurii Filipchuk 🇺🇦 -- e/acc

Founder @ Stealth AI |TechStars AI Startup Weekend SF

I build Principle, a simulation engine that stress-tests business decisions before you commit capital.

I also run partnerships and sponsorships at Techstars Startup Weekend SF and Catalyst Bay. We're a community of 10,000 founders doing IRL events in San Francisco.

Chaotic Good is my operating system. Move fast, challenge conventional thinking, put powerful tools in more hands. I believe that's how you actually make the world better. Big believer in pay-it-forward culture. If you have an idea on how we can help you or you want to help us, reach out.

The LLMs you choose say something about you. I'm team Claude for work. NotebookLM and Gemini for research. ChatGPT and Groq for personal life questions.

Previously CEO of Party.Space. Spotify was my first client, then Google, Zapier, Grammarly, UC Berkeley. Raised $2M from top European VCs.

I advise early-stage founders on fundraising and GTM. Been on both sides of the table. Invested through CYFRD: 15 deals, 2 exits.

San Francisco. Born in Kyiv.

Community Lead: Vibes & Sponsorships | Pitching Mentor

At Techstars Startup Weekend SF AI, we're hosting a fast-paced, 3-day event where tech enthusiasts come together to bring AI startup ideas to life. My role is to create an energetic and welcoming atmosphere, build connections with important sponsors, and guide participants in making their pitches clear and impactful.

Google DeepMind just ran their first Startup Session.

Got the invite from Matt Ridenour - thanks for putting this together and MCing the whole thing.

Direct access to the teams building the models. That's rare.

What they showed:

1/ Austin Sendek on materials science - his team's GNoME project discovered 2.2 million new crystal structures. That's roughly 800 years of materials knowledge generated by AI. Wild number.

2/ Genie 3 - a generative world model trained on internet videos. You describe an environment, it builds a playable 3D world in real time at 720p. Already shipping as Project Genie for AI Ultra subscribers.

3/ Anshul Ramachandran on Antigravity - DeepMind's agent-first IDE. An AI Editor, Agent Manager and Agent-Controlled Browser working together. Task-level coding, not line-by-line.

4/ Nano Banana - their image generation model that pulled 10M+ new Gemini users and 200M+ edits in the first weeks. Now powering the whole Genie world-building pipeline.

And Paige Bailey generated Hindu electro pop live on stage with Lyria. Totally awesome!

Great seeing old friends like Naji Barnes-McFarlane!

Google've been always supporting startups. Good to see them opening the lab doors.

Yurii Filipchuk

AI Simulation Platform for Business Decisions | Chaotic Good 🇺🇦

The state of GenAI video no longer surprises me🤖

So we started making our own. Episode 1 of "LockedIn" is out. Who else gets frustrated receiving AWS/GCP bills?

Where should we channel the creative energy next -- something more satirical or slightly educational?

P.S. Those worms are adorable and they deserve their own show. Someone talk us out of it.

We act like AI showed up yesterday.

1951 - Christopher Strachey wrote a checkers program on the Ferranti Mark 1. A room-sized machine playing board games. That was the first AI.

1966 - MIT built ELIZA. A chatbot pretending to be a psychotherapist. People got emotionally attached to it. 58 years before ChatGPT.

1972 - MYCIN diagnosed blood infections better than most doctors. An AI system. In the seventies.

By the 1980s, companies were spending millions on expert systems that mimicked specialist knowledge. Then the hype died. Funding dried up. They called it the "AI winter."

We've been through this cycle before.

When was the first time you used a product and thought "wait, is this AI?"

early ai cases 

Dropping a new episode of LockedIn. Inspired by a real story this time!

Hamudi Naanaa and Volodymyr Panchenko hit Anthropic's Tier 4 token limit mid-hypergrowth. 4 users to 1,400 in 3 days. 2b tokens a day! 

Their words: "A two-day response cycle doesn't match the speed we're operating at -- for us, it's 1–2 hours."

They switched to Gemini overnight. A constraint forced it.

What's the ceiling your team hasn't hit yet -- but will?

Peter Sorgenfrei

Live a happier and healthier life. I'll get you there in 3 months or less.

I work privately with founders when something has started to repeat or quietly erode, even though nothing has visibly broken yet.

By the time people reach out, conversations escalate more easily, conflicts don't fully resolve, authority thins, or work begins to spill into personal life in ways that are hard to contain. What used to feel manageable starts depending on effort.

I know how that feels from the inside. I ran my own company with 70 people across 5 countries and hit the wall myself in 2019. Not the dramatic kind. The slow kind, where you keep performing but stop recognizing yourself. Six companies, fifteen years of building, and the thing that finally broke wasn't the business. It was everything around it. I rebuilt from there.

That experience is what shapes how I work now. 
This is not coaching for growth, optimization, or personal development. It's not therapy. The work focuses on stabilizing these patterns before continuing as-is costs more than it should, professionally, personally, or both. Engagements are private, time-bounded, and deliberately contained. We reassess once things begin to resolve cleanly again.

If you're looking for ongoing support, performance work, or stress relief, this is probably not a fit. If continuing as you are no longer feels neutral, this is usually the right moment to reach out.

The starting point is a single 90-minute diagnostic session. You walk in with what's been building. You leave with a scored snapshot of how you're operating across work, body, mind, and relationships, plus a 30-day action plan. No commitment beyond that. DM me "baseline" if you want the details.

I also write occasional notes on pressure, responsibility, and decision-making in my newsletter Intentional Leadership (see featured section).

Executive and Board Advisory

I work with Investors, Boards, and Leadership teams to develop people and grow companies

Being a startup founder explained in 12 seconds.

You start at the top.

You've got a plan. 

A strategy. 

A direction.

Then you spin around completely, and suddenly you're going downhill, facing the wrong way.

You can't see where you're going. 
You definitely can't see the finish line. 

Your investors are watching from the sidelines, trying to make sense of what just happened.

But you're still moving.

Still somehow staying on your feet.

And against all logic, you cross the finish line. 

Backwards. 
Confused. 
But you crossed it.

Six companies. 
Fifteen years. 
I've finished backwards more times than I'd like to admit.

The founders I coach? Same thing. 

The ones who make it aren't the ones who never spin out.

They're the ones who keep skiing when they can't see where they're going.

What's your "finished backwards" moment?

You may not like me after reading this.

But someone needs to say it.

I've spent hours advising people who aren't clients.

They ask a question. I answer.
They ask another. I answer again.
They ask a third. I answer once more.

Then they come back next week with more questions.

At some point, I see they're not building anything.

They're just collecting answers.

The people who win?

They follow a different path:

• They ask one or two good questions
• They say thank you and leave
• They go do what they learned
• They come back weeks later with real results
• They ask new questions based on what happened

Not theory.
Not what-ifs.
Not trying to plan every step ahead.

They return with: "I tried what you said. Here's what happened."

That's the difference.

Winners collect just enough info to take action.

Then they let doing it teach them what they really need to know.

They know talking isn't one-way taking.
It's not about owing someone something.

It's about knowing when you've gotten value and need to create some yourself.

Stop asking questions you already know the answer to.

Start doing the work that scares you.

The answers you want are in the doing, not in one more talk.

And if you still have questions?
Try this: https://bit.ly/askpetergpt

I coach founder-CEOs who built the company but lost themselves along the way | 6x founder/CEO | Burned out managing 70 people across 5 countries. Rebuilt from there.

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