Grace Gong

Goblinmaxxing at the OpenAI GPT 5.5 event

May the force be with you.

Excited to chat about cloud reliability & systems engineering!☁️

@jxnlco Looking forward to it! Thanks for organizing :)

We had a 1.2% acceptance rate

@sama Interested! I work on cloud reliability for azure services including azure open ai. Would love to learn from this community of builders 🛠️

GPT-5.5 is going to have a party for itself. it chose 5/5 at 5:55 pm for the date and time. if you'd like to come, let us know here: luma.com/5.5 codex will help the team pick people from the replies. 5.5 had some good ideas/requests for the party, which we'll do.

Key takeaways from today's Outside In talk with Ryan Roslansky (EVP, LinkedIn & Microsoft Office) and Aneesh Raman (Chief Economic Opportunity Officer, LinkedIn): 1. Your career is like a climbing wall. Go sideways, down, or diagonal, just keep moving. 2. Break your job into tasks. The ones AI can't touch are judgment, compassion, creativity, and courage. Those are your differentiators. 3. Think work charts, not org charts. LinkedIn created a new grad role called "Builder" that combines PM, engineering, and design. 4. Being entrepreneurial doesn’t require starting a company. It means doing more than is reasonable with the resources you have. AI is now one of those resources. 5. Do one new thing every day. Try a new tool. Raise your hand. Speak up. Small steps compound fast. #MicrosoftLife

@alumniventures Update: Thanks to everyone who has reached out so far! I'm balancing this fellowship as an extracurricular alongside my full-time role and other commitments so I appreciate your patience. I'll follow up within the next 1-2 weeks if I think there could be a fit.

I'm a 2026 Venture Fellow at @alumniventures ! 🚀 If you're building something and looking for potential funding opportunities, feel free to DM me or reach out at grace.gong@alumni-ventures.com! #AlumniVentures #VentureCapital #Startups #VC #FounderEcosystem #StartupCommunity

I'll be speaking at Grace Hopper Celebration 2026 in Anaheim, CA! My session: "Introduction to Venture Capital: How Funding Decisions Get Made" will break down how investors evaluate deals, what they look for, and how you can navigate. Ill be sharing learnings from the @alumniventures fellowship + venture capital coursework from @BerkeleyLaw @nvca @VCForward. Oct 27–30 | Register: GHC.AnitaB.org #GHC26 #GraceHopper #VentureCapital #VC #Startups #StartupCommunity #FounderEcosystem #GHC2026 #GHC #WomenInVC

@manuelbajayi @alumniventures Apologies, I just updated the settings. Thanks for flagging!

@graceg0ng @alumniventures I couldn't dm you grace... could you help send a "Hi" ?

@Kyriakos_Pelek @alumniventures Thanks Kyriakos! I really appreciate it :)

@graceg0ng @alumniventures Grace, congrats on the venture fellowship, excited for Alumni Ventures

So great meeting peers from @UofIllinois @giesbusiness in Seattle last week! Thank you to everyone who organized such a memorable event 🙌 Grateful for this community 😀 #GiesBusiness #BusinessOnPurpose #UofIllinois #UIUC