Meet Ben Khakshoor and Sam Drozdov, the founders of Bloxbiz, an advertising platform for the $28B online gaming platform Roblox. Bloxbiz's ad product hits 75M monthly active players on Roblox. Bloxbiz dominates the Roblox ad market - because there's no competition.

🚨 Upcoming ShellTalk! 🚨 ShellTalk w/ Michael Gibson, General Partner of 1517 Fund and Co-Founder of the Thiel Fellowship! Happening this Tuesday, April 25th at 6 - 7:15 PM EST in the Startup Shell space! Space is limited so please RSVP! forms.gle/oAJtyYySXPRVEr…

Thank you for coming, Michael P Gibson and 1517 Fund! Excited for future events together! 🐢

📢 Announcing the HackAPrompt competition! The first ever prompt hacking competition, designed to enhance AI safety, launching this Friday 👇 🕵️ Become a prompt hacker 🏆 Win over $35,000 in prizes 😎 Get featured on Learn Prompting Register now aicrowd.com/challenges/hac…

Interested in entrepreneurship? There is a roadshow at Startup Shell in the IDEA factory this Thurs, May 4th, 4pm. The Center of Advancing Innovation is recruiting participants to its newest initiative, the Global Health Innovation Challenge! Details ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Don't miss out on the HackAPrompt Competition kickoff TODAY at 3 PM PT / 6 PM ET, featuring Co-founder of Preamble, Jon Cefalu! Come learn about prompt hacking, the security challenges it poses, and how you can contribute to making AI systems more secure 🔒 Sign up now 👇

Startup Shell alumni are doing big things 🤯🤯

Meet Korion Health, a Shell company that is developing the first guided, at-home electronic stethoscope to combat heart disease! They are currently raising their seed round through crowdsourcing, and their goal is to raise $100K by the next month! startupshell.org/korion

Companies with poor customer service have a new force to reckon with — KarenAI. dbknews.com/2023/05/11/umd…

Startup Shellers fady and Pranav Shikarpur built KarenAI, an AI-powered chatbot and voice synthesizer designed to solve annoying customer service situations! Check out the article written about KarenAI in the The Diamondback!

I’m on a metro bus. Not like in one, like actually on it.

Shoutout to fellow sheller, Errnimations for being featured by Fallout! 🌟

Our weekly community event, FFT, where we see how everyone’s week went and how we can support their journey! FFT stands for Friday at Four Thirty, but we actually do it on Thursdays at Five…lol

Great Job fellow sheller, Sander Schulhoff for getting Best Theme Paper at EMNLP!!!!

We are so back.

Shellers being shellers... lol.

Great Shell talk today with Carter teaching us how to juggle and unicycle!

Weekly FFT, (Friday at Four Thirty but it’s actually Thursday at Five Thirty…lol) where Shellers get to chill and chat.

Valentine’s Day or Shell Grind Night?

Thrilled to host shyamal from OpenAI at Startup Shell Our CEO Sander Schulhoff joined us as we dove into the future of generative AI. Big takeaway, GenAI will fundamentally change knowledge work!💡 More below 👇🧵