I've had the privilege of hiring or working with really world-class people. Here are some of the best of the best.
- Lina Ochman(opens in a new tab)Ops thinker turned Sales Leader that's built wonderful cultures and teams at Segment, Miro, and now Anthropic.
- Matt Groetelaars(opens in a new tab)built a $1m+/yr 1 man agency, taught 1000s of people how sell, launched his first 6 figure business at 16
- Josh Galland(opens in a new tab)Solved countless problems for Segment, Miro, and Vercel. Crystal clear thinking and the world's most ideal thought partner.
- Harpreet Arora(opens in a new tab)Left a wildly successful academic career (multiple first-author Nature papers) for Vercel. The best combination of smarts and drive I have ever seen.
- Shar Dara(opens in a new tab)The platonic ideal of a PM or project leader. Able to find the right answer to technical and product problems, always.
- Alli Pope(opens in a new tab)Runs about half of Vercel's marketing and dev rel today, and was an IC nine months ago. Will be one of the best CMOs in the world.
- Sonya Huang(opens in a new tab)Partner at Sequoia — one of the sharpest minds I know on where AI is actually heading.
- Zhenya Loginov(opens in a new tab)Partner at Accel after running go-to-market at Miro, Segment, and Dropbox. One of the best operators-turned-investors I know.
- Eleanor Dorfman(opens in a new tab)GTM leadership at Anthropic and a driving force behind making Claude for Work actually work in the enterprise.
- Vickie Peng(opens in a new tab)VP of Product at Sequoia, quietly shaping how the best builders and founders get supported.
- Ricky Doar(opens in a new tab)SVP of Global Field Engineering at Cursor, previously VP at Vercel. Builds technical go-to-market teams that actually sell.