-1 to Anduril with Trae Stephens

South Park Commons is delighted to host Trae Stephens as part of our -1 to Now series. Event Details 3:00pm: Doors Open + Mingling 3:30-4:30pm: Fireside Chat Trae is a General Partner at Founders Fund. He is also Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Anduril Industries, a defense technology company focused on autonomous systems. Previously, Trae was an early employee at Palantir Technologies, where he led teams focused on growth in the intelligence/defense space as well as international expansion, helping large organizations solve their hardest data analysis problems. He was also an integral part of the product team, leading the design and strategy for new product offerings. While at Palantir, Trae also served as an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University. Prior to Palantir, Trae worked as a computational linguist building enterprise solutions to Arabic/Persian name matching and data enrichment within the United States Intelligence community. He began his career working in the office of then Congressman Rob Portman and in the Political Affairs Office at the Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington, D.C. immediately following the installation of Hamid Karzai’s transitional government. Trae graduated from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. ​About South Park Commons (SPC) SPC is a technical community and venture fund dedicated to helping founders, researchers, and technologists figure out what to work on next—what we call the -1 to 0 stage of your career. We believe this is best accomplished in the most talent-dense community possible. SPC events are open to members, alumni, and special guests of the community. The best way to join events at SPC is to apply for SPC membership. *Please note doors close at event start time and we are unable to accommodate pending, waitlist, or late arrivals.