Ali Rowghani
@ROWGHANI
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Building @firstharmonic. Formerly: MD @ycombinator, COO @Twitter, CFO @Pixar
Joined April 2009
This is a nice list to find one's name on. Thanks @chrisbarber.
I asked a bunch of founders: "Who were your 1-3 most helpful angel investors?". The list: . 1. Adam Smith - @asmith.2. Alex Adelman - @alexadelman.3. Alex Wu (CFO Advisors).4. Alexandr Wang - @alexandr_wang.5. Ali Rowghani - @ROWGHANI.6. Anantha Kancherla (GM).7. Andrés Pérez.
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I often introduce founders who are just getting started with GTM to @austinh___ and @HeggieConnor for advice on how to get outbound right. They are killer founders who have built the best tooling to automate outbound sales. It was a pleasure having them in our first.
Congrats to @unifygtm on their Series B! @austinh___ and @HeggieConnor were part of the first @firstharmonic cohort and remain a shining example of how far you can get and how quickly you can move when you are hyper-focused on the right customer.
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This is a great opportunity to work directly with us and learn a lot about the challenges of scaling a startup. Please see below and apply!.
👋 Sharing a great opportunity for anyone out there who loves to read, write, and learn. We're hiring a part-time writer at @firstharmonic to produce a series of research essays on topics that early-stage founders care about. Probably two pieces per month, each about 1,000–2,000
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RT @jakecadams: This program reshaped how I approach building. @ROWGHANI and his team are world-class at asking the questions that cut stra….
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RT @illscience: Ali is the very best of Silicon Valley - great human, A+ thinker, and shows up prepared / serious / open minded to every co….
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RT @markiewagner: @ROWGHANI Forge simply wouldn’t be where it is today without Ali - forever grateful we crossed paths. He's one of the mo….
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I’m excited to announce the public launch of First Harmonic. We are a small team of former operators who invest in early-stage companies and run what I believe is the world’s best go-to-market program for seed-stage founders. We have run six cohorts of the program to date with an
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This is a spectacular new product release from Zip. It truly shows the power of AI to make a dramatic impact on how people work inside large companies. Congrats to @rujulz and the @theziphq team on this release.
🚀Today we’re launching a brand-new category: Agentic Procurement Orchestration. That includes 50+ purpose-built AI agents that automate real procurement tasks. This isn’t marketing hype. These are real agents, embedded in real workflows, trained on real-world procurement needs.
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Congrats to @FactoryAI for this launch. .
Software development is due for a dramatic change. Throwing AI onto existing workflows is not enough. Enter the Droid. In this new era of agent-native software development, there will be more developers than ever, with more leverage than ever. Now is the time to use these.
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Congrats team Actively! @mgarimella and @agupta_108 are stellar founders who have built a compelling product for sales teams. We are seeing the future of sales with this product.
We’re excited to launch Actively AI 🎉 We’re building AI that helps the most ambitious companies in the world generate more revenue and grow even faster. We call it GTM superintelligence. More in 🧵
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This is super cool for people who use imessage as their primary communication app.
I built RPLY to never miss a text again. Staying in touch should be effortless—RPLY finds your unanswered texts, instantly suggests AI-powered drafts, and syncs across all your Apple devices, meeting you where you already are. Download below.
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Amazing thread from @pedroh96 on the changes at Brex. Re-accelerating a business at scale is very very hard to do. Kudos to the team @brexHQ for pulling it off.
Early this year, we made some hard changes at @brexHQ to increase intensity, quality and speed. Ten months later, this is how Brex is doing after switching into founder mode. 🧵.
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Congrats to @zenorocha and the @resend team on building a great product and on this fundraising milestone.
Announcing our $18M Series A led by @a16z. With a new round of funding, we’re doubling down on three priorities:
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Very impressed with the team @humanloop on this launch and on the continued evolution of their product.
Humanloop is now generally available!. After 2 years of working closely with early customers, we're opening access to our full evals platform. 🧵 Here's what we've learned and how we can help you build great AI products:
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.@mercor_ai is a fascinating company that's re-inventing the nature of work, recruiting, and assessment.
Mercor is solving global labor matching with models that understand human ability. @mercor_ai raised a $30M Series A at a $250M valuation, led by @victoralazarte and @bgurley at @benchmark, with participation from @peterthiel, @jack, @adamdangelo, and @LHSummers.
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A breakthrough for @kalshi and financial markets as a whole. I’m very interested to see what these markets predict for the election outcome.
Kalshi just legalized trading on elections in the U.S. For the first time in 100 years, Americans will have access to legal election markets at scale. Historic moment for financial markets.
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I really enjoyed being a guest co-host on this discussion about building AI products @GustoHQ with co-founder @edawerd and @RazRazcle. Great things coming on this front from the team @GustoHQ.
.@edawerd knows what it takes to build AI products at scale. He cofounded the $9.5Bn payroll company, @GustoHQ, and leads their GenAI efforts. @ROWGHANI and I collected his lessons in this week's episode of the High Agency podcast. Some highlights↓
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