Friends of Kevin presents · Alchemy Springs, San Francisco · Friday, October 16, 2026
Cold Plunge Interviews
The Friday after TechCrunch Disrupt week, founders and investors traded the conference floor for a sauna and a cold plunge. We asked each of them what they're building while the clock ran.
The interviews
HostKathy Wang
Co-founder, Press Club
Cold outreach really works.
In the plunge · 7 min
Co-hostPatrycja Brzozowska
Founder & CEO, Mos Health
80% of healthcare costs in the United States are tied to preventable conditions.
Co-hostMilena Nowaczewska
Chief of Staff, Mos Health
Everyone here is like so delusional. I'm very delusional myself.
In the plunge · 6 min
Charles Wu
Founder, Medical device startup
We're doing for ENT what happened in radiology over the last 25 years.
In the plunge · 22 min · record
Alexander Farr
Co-founder & COO, Clera
Startup building is like the hardest thing you can do.
In the plunge · 6 min
Memo
CTO, Open LLM
For Tech Week we came and for TechCrunch we stayed.
In the plunge · 5 min 20 s
Frank Sondors
Co-founder & CEO, Salesforge
Here, literally every day, you can go to like two to five events and then you can engineer luck.
In the plunge · 4 min 20 s
Rachel Flanagan
Voice-restoration medtech
Think of all the times you speak in a day.
In the plunge · 4 min
Capella Kerst
Founder & CEO, geCKo Materials
Six one-inch tiles can pull a car.
In the plunge · 3 min
Michael Raybman
CTO, Cold Brew CTO
Build something fast. Whatever it takes.
In the plunge · 3 min
Noah Habtemichael
Founder, GenAIx
Adopting AI is not actually a technical issue. It's actually a human issue.
SponsorKatya Stelmakh
Founder & CEO, Stelmakh & Associates
We believe that talent should not have borders.
Ilya
Investor
People just doing their life's work.