Evan Tana is a pre-seed investor at Script Capital who spent 15 years as a product leader and repeat founder in mobile and consumer companies, including founding team roles at Shopkick through its $250M acquisition and leading product teams at Dropbox where he launched Dropbox Spaces. He focuses specifically on multiplayer products that connect people around how they communicate, play, transact, and work together, and coaches founders on leadership development while emphasizing the importance of founder-market fit rooted in personal narrative and life experience.

• Deeply involved in cultivating early stage founder communities through South Park Commons. Regularly hosts roundtables with top venture capital firms like Sequoia and Greylock to discuss generational businesses and technical advancements. For instance, he recently highlighted a session discussing how founders can build ahead of the capability curve and sell outcomes rather than just tooling.
• Focused on how startups can survive the rapid acceleration of large foundation model labs. Believes that because these massive companies are moving at a voracious pace and consuming competitive space, winning founders must move smarter rather than just faster. He gave a specific presentation on avoiding direct competition with these tech giants and understanding when to build at higher levels of abstraction.
• Interested in the earliest ideation phase of a startup and values founders who possess deep obsession and earned insights. Emphasizes that ideas should stem from genuine curiosity and a clear north star rather than a fear of missing out. He pointed to the founder of Surge AI as a prime example of someone who bootstrapped a massive revenue company simply by following a deep curiosity about high quality data collection.
• Fascinated by how abundant artificial intelligence capabilities shift the skills required for founders to succeed. Argues that because technical answers are essentially free now, curiosity and the ability to ask better questions are the most valuable traits. He notes that this environment rewards builders who can prioritize effectively and know exactly when to automate scalable processes versus when to handle things manually.