Making the surreal, real.

Join us for a lighter version of Surreal in Palo Alto, a series normally held at art galleries.

This special edition is being held during lunch (BYOL) at Stanford. We'll discuss how Michele (Stanford alum) drives vibecoding building at Replit.

We'll have a fireside chat with Michele Catasta, President of Replit.

Past attendees have hailed from Perplexity, OpenAI, X.Ai, Reflection AI, Sierra, Glean,, Vercel,, Anthropic, Mercor, Midjourney, Apple, Google Deepmind, Pika, Jane Street, Nvidia, Parallel, 1X, Stanford CS PhDs, and more.

Agenda:

12:00pm Doors Open + Mingle
12:10pm Talk
12:40pm Q&A
1:00pm Network + Mingle

Surreal

Surreal is a monthly event series & technical community run by Premise in collaboration with our sponsors (Fenwick, SVB, Colliers, & True Search).

The series is held at art galleries as we believe that technologists are inspired by creative environments when they invent new technology products, and that the same creativity that inspires artists, inspires technologists.

Our manifesto:

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 the Surreal community here: surrealbuilders.com

Surreal Snack: Building with Replit