Goodbye Twitter. It's been an amazing ride, and I will cherish the memories.
Ali Rowghani
3,654 posts
Ali Rowghani
@ROWGHANI
Building @firstharmonic. Formerly: MD @ycombinator, COO @Twitter, CFO @Pixar. Investor in Stripe, DoorDash, Zapier, Deel, Webflow, Zip, Kalshi, Vanta, Ironclad.
Joined April 2009
- 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. HeI 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
00:00 - 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
GIF - Super delighted to finally be able to share that @ROWGHANI is running our new later-stage fund. Wonderful partner to help companies scale.
- Here's what working with Steve Jobs and Ed Catmull taught me about becoming a great leader: blog.ycombinator.com/how-do-you-mea…
- Happy to say that Twitter is staying in San Francisco. We've signed a lease to move our HQ to the Central Market area bit.ly/tweetsofSF
- "Our system is a golden goose. It lays so many gold eggs. All we have to do is distribute them better to everyone"
- Very excited be joining the @segment board! Marketing data startup Segment raises $64M tcrn.ch/2vgLKqO # via @techcrunch
- .@webflow is a very special company. I've known @callmevlad for almost 7 years and have watched him build a company and product the right way. We are proud to be leading his latest round.Today marks a major milestone in @webflow’s history. I'm very proud to announce our Series C funding round and an upcoming $10M community grant program that will invest directly into our amazing community. Read my letter to the community: webflow.com/blog/webflow-s…
- I wanted to congratulate @reinpk on an epic ride as the co-founder and CEO of Segment. He stepped down today to work full-time on his new startup @CharmIndustrial. He's on his way to making a second dent in the the universe
