ROWGHANI's profile picture. Building @firstharmonic. Formerly: MD @ycombinator, COO @Twitter, CFO @Pixar

Ali Rowghani

@ROWGHANI

Building @firstharmonic. Formerly: MD @ycombinator, COO @Twitter, CFO @Pixar

Thank you @pedroh96! And congrats on the amazing business transformation @brexHQ

Ali is a special operator and investor. He joined a @brexHQ all hands a few months ago, and was one of the most profound guest speakers ever. One of the learnings from working with Steve Jobs: he was obsessed with the quality of his own thinking. I’m really glad @jaltma



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…



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…



Fucking love this clip from Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos was insanely locked in all the way from day one



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.



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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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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Ali is the very best of Silicon Valley - great human, A+ thinker, and shows up prepared / serious / open minded to every conversation. If you have a chance to work with him, you should!

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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Forge simply wouldn’t be where it is today without Ali - forever grateful we crossed paths. He's one of the most thoughtful and genuinely good people I’ve met - there’s a reason he’s the first call for so many founders


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.…



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…



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 🧵



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.



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. 🧵



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:

resend's tweet image. Announcing our $18M Series A led by @a16z.

With a new round of funding, we’re doubling down on three priorities:


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:

humanloop's tweet image. 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:


.@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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3/ @Yale has now announced their Prospect Fellowship -- an eight-week intensive program that seeks to partner with five forward thinking investment management entrepreneurs.  Want to learn from the best?  Apply below.  Want a minimum LP commitment of $25 million at…

joshk's tweet image. 3/ @Yale has now announced their Prospect Fellowship -- an eight-week intensive program that seeks to partner with five forward thinking investment management entrepreneurs.    

Want to learn from the best?  Apply below.    

Want a minimum LP commitment of $25 million at…

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