Scott Nolan
Scott is a Partner at Founders Fund. He works with mission-driven founders rearchitecting industries. Scott supports Synthego, Collective Health, Modern Animal and over a dozen more engineering-driven startups across biotech, crypto, energy, infrastructure, manufacturing and transportation.
Prior to Founders Fund, Scott was an early employee at SpaceX, where he helped develop the original Falcon propulsion systems and multiple Dragon subsystems. After SpaceX, Scott worked at Bain & Company with its private equity clients and co-founded a consumer internet company built on the Facebook Connect API.
Scott earned Bachelor and Master degrees in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Cornell in under four years and received his MBA from Stanford University, where he was co-president of the Entrepreneurs Club and voted “most likely to drop out” by his peers.