Joon Sung Park

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: The Best AI Companies Have Unique Data Acquisition Strategies | Will Simile Kill Kalshi, Polymarkets and NASDAQ | How to Sign Fortune 500 Companies As Customers in Weeks with Joon Sung Park, Simile · 1 Aug 2026 podcast

So what simulation will do is unlock that limitation and us to actually test every single hypothesis that we have about the world before we have to launch into the world.

So Simile is a company that has a real product and engineering team.

But at the same time, we are a research company.

The co-founders, the four of the three co-founders, are researchers.

So we have, as co-founders, myself, Michael Bernstein, Percy Leung, Laney Allen.

Myself and Michael and Percy were all researchers at Stanford.

So I led research around agents, simulations.

Michael was one of the co-authors of the ImageNet that really kickstarted the AI revolution.

And he's been a leader in human-centered AI.

Percy was the person who literally coined the term foundational.

model.

The vision for this particular area is the vision that we can actually create the next paradigm shift in AI and in the way we view technology and impact of that technology in the form of simulation.

The reason why we are able to, however, operate as a research lab, but also have an amazing product and engineering function and go-to-market function that's led by my counterpart, Laney, is the alignment between what the technology can do, the promise of technology, is so close to what our market actually requires.

The better the model gets in representing people, the better simulation we can create.

It immediately means better experience for our users because they'll have much more grounded, much more accurate simulation.

It is very difficult to maintain both a lab and a product company if there is not that alignment.

But when there is, it can be quite magical.

And that's what we're seeing at Simile.

What's been fascinating to me coming into the field of simulation, especially in this market, was last year when I started the company.

So I left Stanford June of 2025.

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