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 captured some of his wisdom on a podcast. Highly recommend listening!

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 then Sam at YC. He’s advised some of the best founders through his work at YC Continuity and now his own fund First Harmonic. I love talking to Ali and always learn something new. Hope you enjoy.

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 Soderi (Carya) 8. Anil Varanasi - @acv 9. Anjney Midha - @AnjneyMidha 10. Ann Miura-Ko - @annimaniac 11. Arielle Zuckerberg - @ariellezuck 12. Ashley Mayer - @ashleymayer 13. Balaji Srinivasan - @balajis 14. Bob McGrew - @bobmcgrewai 15. Brett Kopf (Omella, Remind) 16. Charlie Cheever - @ccheever 17. Charlie Songhurst (Microsoft, Meta) 18. Conviction (Fund) 19. Cristina Cordova - @cjc 20. Dan Romero - @dwr 21. Debo Olaosebikan - @dolaoseb 22. Ed Bishop (Tessian) 23. Ed Lando - @edwardlando 24. Elad Gil - @eladgil 25. Eric Chen (OVO) 26. Erik Torenberg - @eriktorenberg 27. Garrett Lord - @GarrettLord 28. Ian Blumenfeld - @ianblu1 29. Ian Hogarth - @soundboy 30. Ian Lee - @ianDAOs 31. Immad Akhund - @immad 32. Jana Messerschmidt - @janamal 33. Jerry Neumann - @ganeumann 34. Jess Sloss - @thattallguy 35. John Donovan (Qudit) 36. John Gedmark - @Gedmark 37. Jonathan Swanson - @swaaanson 38. Josh Reeves (Gusto) 39. Julian Weisser - @julianweisser 40. Kevin Kwok - @kevinakwok 41. Kris Fredrickson - @krisfredrickson 42. Lachy Groom - @lachygroom 43. Linda Xie - @ljxie 44. Mana Ventures (Fund) 45. Matt Mullenweg - @photomatt 46. Matthew Mulqueen (LILT) 47. Michael Akilian - @akilian 48. Michael Stoppelman - @stopman 49. Michelle Valentine (Anrok) 50. Naval Ravikant - @naval 51. Nitay Joffe - @nitayj 52. Olivia Wang - @OliveWang839 53. Patrick Rivera (Mirror) 54. Paul Graham - @paulg 55. Paul Klein - @pk_iv 56. Rich Wang (Cresta) 57. Ryan Breslow - @ryanbreslow 58. Ryan Delk - @delk 59. Shomik Ghosh - @shomikghosh21 60. Shrav Mehta - @shravvmehtaa 61. Spencer Graham - @spengrah 62. Tim Sadler (Tessian) 63. Tom McInerney - @tgm 64. Trevor McFedries - @whatdotcd 65. William Hockey - @williamhockey 66. Yoav Lurie (Simple Energy, WattBuy) 67. Zach Anderson - @fifthworldzach Alphabetical order. Some angels were recommended by multiple founders. Some funds got recommended and I decided to include those too All nominators are kept anonymous