Mia Mabanta
@miamabanta
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Building @firstharmonic. Ex YC, fintech founder, media biz person, policy research.
Joined September 2008
If you run a global business you should @get_sphere, the world's first AI-native tax engine. Congrats to @nrudder_ and the team on their Series A.
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Announcing our $7M Series A led by @Standard_Cap Sim has gone from 0 to 60,000 developers in 5 months Sim v0.5 announcement below
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Forget 996. What you actually want is Deel Speed.
16/ We grew to $1B ARR faster than Stripe, Palantir, Square, Salesforce and many other amazing companies. Advice I'd give if I was starting over: - All good things start small. Believe in yourself. - Answering people super fast is underrated. What takes 1 day can be done in
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I've reached the age where I decorate my house for Halloween and the marketing for these Amazon products is killing me
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Great to have @AntWilson and @kiwicopple over And before anyone asks: no, the art is *not* AI (despite being largely about AI)
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Thanks @OpenAI for the keynote feature yesterday of Actively ( https://t.co/dwm3nptvmT) alongside many companies we look up to (and some of our customers!). We've loved building on OpenAI + AgentKit — agents will transform every business function and we are doing that for GTM!
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such a good episode with the best @ROWGHANI
I get asked a lot what it was like to work with Steve Jobs. Probably the biggest thing I learned is that there is no "good enough" when it comes to the basics: communicating, motivating, and most importantly, thinking. Steve was obsessed with the quality of his own thinking. He
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I get asked a lot what it was like to work with Steve Jobs. Probably the biggest thing I learned is that there is no "good enough" when it comes to the basics: communicating, motivating, and most importantly, thinking. Steve was obsessed with the quality of his own thinking. He
I love the description of Pixar as a miracle factory. How do you create the conditions to make special outcomes more likely? @ROWGHANI helped build Pixar, working closely with Steve Jobs and Ed Catmull in their golden era. He also worked closely with the Twitter founders and
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I love the description of Pixar as a miracle factory. How do you create the conditions to make special outcomes more likely? @ROWGHANI helped build Pixar, working closely with Steve Jobs and Ed Catmull in their golden era. He also worked closely with the Twitter founders and
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Today, we’re announcing @TrustVanta's Series D and new valuation – $4.15 billion – led by @Wellington_Mgmt alongside @sequoia, @ycombinator, @CrowdStrike, @GoldmanSachs, @jpmorgan, @craft_ventures, and @Atlassian. Vanta’s mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust.
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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.
Excited to share that we’ve raised a $40M Series B at @unifygtm to transform growth into a science. Many of the fastest growing companies like Cursor, Perplexity, Flock Safety and Airwallex choose Unify to reimagine growth in an AI-native world. This round comes just 9 months
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👋 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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This program reshaped how I approach building. @ROWGHANI and his team are world-class at asking the questions that cut straight to what matters. If you're a seed stage founder, this program is a no brainer.
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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First Harmonic is genuinely too good to be true. I feel very lucky to have gotten to work with and learn from @ROWGHANI @JdotJdotF @simonlu @miamabanta. The focus and clarity that they brought to Dosu's ICP and GTM strategy saved us SO much valuable time.
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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Startups live or die by focus, and First Harmonic helped us lock in on the right ICP early with ruthless focus and execution. That one decision saved us years of wandering. At Octolane AI, so much of our traction comes from staying focused on who we’re really building for and we
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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@ROWGHANI and the team have been incredibly helpful to us these past few months. I highly recommend this program!
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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Can’t say enough good things about Ali and the team. If you are a founder starting to scale, I cannot recommend working with Ali more strongly. Amazing human and one of the sharpest strategic minds in tech.
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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Had an incredible time going through the @firstharmonic program with @paradedb. The team behind is truly world class both on the operating and on the investing side, which is really rare to find.
I’m super excited to launch what we’ve been working on quietly for quite some time now! A new, free, go to market program for founders. We are six cohorts in, with an NPS of 100 so far. It’s been so fun to run and to know that my prior experience as a founder can help others
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@ROWGHANI is one of the most thoughtful and brilliant voices in tech — always generous with his time and insights! If you're serious about building a successful go-to-market motion, First Harmonic is the place to be 🔥
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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