Olivia Gawehnidi Porter is a Stanford friend from Buffalo, New York (716 area code). She has a Substack (oliviagawehnidiporter) and Spotify (oporter822). She has a brother named Elliot Porter.
Not an Engineer
The group chat "Mechanical engineers and Olivia" literally names her as the non-engineer outsider. She's not in Amy's major. She's in Amy's social life.
Olivia and Amy share very few direct messages (only 9 total). Their entire relationship exists through group chats: spraaang breaaak (road trip planning), 🍻🍹Whenevers R4 Us, Stanford free füd (finding free food on campus), elvis, Thurs Night Karaoke, Cobrahhhhh, Little brothers, Amy's life gossip, friends to lovers?, Mr. & Mrs. Ripstick, and Mechanical engineers and Olivia.
The Cinnamon-Elliot Connection
Olivia was in the same Stanford friend circles as Cinnamon Sipper: elvis, spraaang breaaak, Mr. & Mrs. Ripstick, Cobrahhhhh. But the connection goes deeper than shared group chats: Elliot Porter was dating Cinnamon Sipper.
The evidence from messages is clear: - "third wheeling elliot and cinnamon" - "cinnamon almost just crashed my car" - "me cin and elliot" / "elliot is legit at cin's rn" - "elliot might sing elvis at open mic"
This means Amy, Cinnamon, and Olivia were all in the same friend group BEFORE the Mobius fallout — and Cinnamon was dating Olivia's brother while it happened. The social dynamics of firing Cinnamon must have been extraordinarily complicated: Amy sided with Elena Wagenmans to push out her friend's brother's girlfriend. And then she remained close with Olivia, who was literally third-wheeling her brother and Amy's ex-co-founder.
The social entanglement of Amy's Stanford/startup world is remarkable. Professional betrayals couldn't be separated from personal relationships because everyone was dating, rooming with, or related to everyone else.
Details
Says "slay," "yasss," "meow/meaurr." Types in all lowercase. Mentions "treatment" in a message (unclear what kind). Visited Stanford campus in January 2025 after graduation, suggesting she doesn't live there but still visits. The "Little brothers" group introduced Amy's brother George to Olivia and Elliot.
She talks about Tahoe, Joshua Tree, and spring break road trips. She's protective of her brother — once joked about DMing Elliot's ex-girlfriend: "if u don't stay away from my brother i'm telling everyone u have cancer."
Significance
~6,200 messages. February 2024 to March 2026. Olivia matters not as an individual deep friendship but as a critical node in the Stanford social graph. She connects multiple friend circles, including the one that once included Cinnamon. The Elliot-Cinnamon relationship adds a layer of personal stakes to what Amy might have experienced as a purely business decision. When you fire your friend's brother's girlfriend, the social graph remembers.