brianfields

10 years ago, there were 10 people around my kitchen table. No structure, no brand, no certainty. Just a handful of builders showing up for something that yet didn’t exist. Since then @spc has grown to over a 1000 members. Today, 25,000 people apply to SPC every year. We have offices in SF, NYC, and Bangalore. But SPC isn’t about the numbers, it’s about the people and what emerges when they choose to show up for each other. It looks like @anuraggoel, already successful and credible, showing up with generosity, helping others, sharing work, iterating in public. Patterns sharpened and @render was born. It looks like @thejamescad and @dbabbs, who met at SPC to become cofounders building @profound. One of the superpowers of SPC is the collision rate—not the shallow kind, but the kind that only happens when people keep showing up long enough to build trust. It looks like @MaximilianMona, who moved out to California in an RV to be at SPC and eventually build Ironsite. That’s someone saying, with their whole life: this matters. And it looks like @AshtonJEaton, an Olympic gold medalist, walking into SPC not for a career pivot, but for a deeper reinvention. To trade mastery for learning. Not for optics. For truth. SPC has been designed by the community and for the community, with one goal that hasn’t changed: pay it forward. We’ve helped normalize taking time to find truly meaningful work, whatever shape that might take. So on this ten-year anniversary, I want to thank the people who made SPC what it is. The ones who showed up when they didn’t have a narrative. The ones who lived in the question — and lingered in uncertainty for long enough to find out. The ones who came back, again and again, for the work and for each other. Happy ten years, SPC. Thank you for showing up!