Ali Partovi
@alip.bsky.social
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Ali Partovi
AT Protocol Community
3 months ago
Here’s another release today.
@flutterby.blue
helps you make ATProto widgets for your iOS device. Goosetopher’s latest is looking pretty sweet! Available on TestFlight now
testflight.apple.com/join/DDDtbtMr
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7 months ago
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I’m starting the most ambitious project of my life: Sway, a tech platform to reimagine democracy. I know you've probably got opinions on this – please give feedback and maybe join us!
open.substack.com/pub/neo/p/sw...
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Sway: a plan to reimagine democracy
I’m starting the most ambitious project of my life: a tech platform to reimagine democracy.
https://open.substack.com/pub/neo/p/sway-a-plan-to-reimagine-democracy
8 months ago
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I love this. 😍
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8 months ago
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Hadi Partovi
8 months ago
In venture investing, identifying great entrepreneurs early is the most critical step;
@alip.bsky.social
and Neo have nailed it. Equally important is how well they nurture and mentor young future-entrepreneurs, connecting them to opportunities.
techcrunch.com/2025/04/27/f...
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Great profile on Neo.
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8 months ago
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Bluesky
8 months ago
We’re introducing a new layer of verification on Bluesky — a user-friendly, easily recognizable blue check. In addition to account verification issued by Bluesky, we're also introducing Trusted Verifiers. Select independent organizations can verify accounts directly.
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This is a terrific profile of Bluesky and Jay Graber. 💙 Is it just me, or does the cover pic evoke The Matrix vibes? What a wild coincidence that Jay's given name is Lantian, or Mandarin for "blue sky." 🤯
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
@jay.bsky.team
@rose.bsky.team
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Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media
X and Facebook are governed by the policies of mercurial billionaires. Bluesky’s C.E.O., Jay Graber, says that she wants to give power back to the user.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/14/blueskys-quest-to-build-nontoxic-social-media
9 months ago
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Are you in NY next week? Join me at the first commercial production of "Siblings"! This moving play by 21yo Soli Partovi is an intense story about children growing up against the backdrop of a divorce. Buy tickets now:
SiblingsPlay.com
. ❤️ I'll be at all 7 showings!
9 months ago
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Thank you to Michael Truell (Cursor cofounder) -- we loved hosting you at the Neo office-warming party. 🤩❤️
10 months ago
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The wait is over for thousands of software engineers!
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10 months ago
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Running a startup means learning to live with a certain background level of uncertainty all the time. (From mentor session with Britton O'Daly of Treater, a Neo-backed startup).
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11 months ago
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I was 20yo the first time I hired someone older than myself. It was intimidating! I shared my advice with 20yo Ron Nachum, CEO of Sapien, backed by Neo.
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11 months ago
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Last night I started making the pizza dough from scratch for hosting 25-30 Neo Scholars and founders this weekend. 🍕
11 months ago
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Mentor session: how long should you wait before nudging a prospective customer to reply? (With Gavin Lifrieri of Koi, a Neo-backed startup)
#startups
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12 months ago
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BOMBSHELL: "He first told Joint Chiefs of Staff about a lab leak in China in Oct 2019." 🤯
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3225752...
about 1 year ago
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I loved visiting Penn today to speak with so many inspiring students interested in startups! Thanks to Connor Ling and Neo Scholar Angela Zhang for hosting and interviewing me! I can't wait till my next visit! 💙
about 1 year ago
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Ali Partovi
Economïst Fella 🇸🇰🇪🇺
about 1 year ago
Interesting interview by
@siliconcurtain.bsky.social
#NAFO
#Fellas
#Bluesky
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Rose Wang - Bluesky Social Aims to Help Users Escape the Tyranny and Toxicity of Social Algorithms
YouTube video by Silicon Curtain
https://youtu.be/5jtKMmZWGQ4
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Two of the people I admire most in one article. 🤩🤩🤩
@hadip.bsky.social
and Alfred Lin.
www.wsj.com/tech/sequoia...
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Where a Top Venture Capitalist Turns for Help and Inspiration
Alfred Lin, the co-head of Sequoia’s venture business, leans on colleagues and the founders he’s backed to continue growing and learning.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/sequoia-venture-capital-alfred-lin-nvidia-ai-7f0ba315
about 1 year ago
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We loved hosting Sam Altman for an intimate gathering with Neo Scholars. Thank you Alfred Lin for offering your home! ❤️
about 1 year ago
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Mentor session: what to consider when bringing on a board member. With Edward Ge of Aethero, backed by Neo
#startups
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about 1 year ago
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TELO Trucks pre-orders are "EV-ailable"! 😂
www.fastcompany.com/91236969/thi...
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This electric mini-truck is the length of a Mini Cooper—but can carry as much as a bigger truck
Telo's new EV can haul lumber or surfboards—and it starts at just $41,250.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91236969/this-electric-mini-truck-is-the-length-of-a-mini-cooper-but-can-carry-as-much-as-a-bigger-truck
about 1 year ago
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Ali Partovi
Mark Cuban
about 1 year ago
Time to give @bluesky props. As I write this, there are 560 quotes and replies to the post below. Of those only 4 call me names and give me shit. About 15 do the same towards Trump. The remaining 541 are on topic and add value. 👏👏👏👏👏
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about 1 year ago
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NEW video series: Watch short clips from my mentor sessions with Neo startup founders. In this 44-sec episode, Lillie and I debate whether to pivot after her latest push had mixed results.
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about 1 year ago
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Jay 🦋
about 1 year ago
A whiteboard from our Jan 2023 team retreat where I wrote down our goals, and the top one was “10k user signups.” We’re growing by 10k users every 10-15 minutes right now.
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Check out Neo-backed startups hitting #1 on the App Store both last week and this week.
about 1 year ago
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Check it out: Bluesky is #1 on the App Store. 🔥🔥🔥
about 1 year ago
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Ali Partovi
Blockchain Capital
about 1 year ago
We led Bluesky's $15M Series A 🦋 We’re excited to support
@bsky.app
in their mission to build an open foundation for the social internet and give power back to users. More on our thesis ↓
www.blockchaincapital.com/blog/bluesky...
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13M Users and Growing: Our investment in Bluesky's re-imagined social network
Blockchain Capital invests in Bluesky’s Series A - Bluesky is revolutionizing the social media ecosystem by empowering users to curate their own feeds and take control of their data
https://www.blockchaincapital.com/blog/bluesky-13m-users-and-growing-our-investment-in-blueskys-re-imagined-social-network
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Bluesky
about 1 year ago
Bluesky now has 13M+ users, the
@atproto.com
developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we’ve shipped features like DMs and video! We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $15M Series A to continue growing the community, investing in Trust and Safety, and supporting the dev ecosystem.
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Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users - Bluesky
Bluesky now exceeds 13 million users, the AT Protocol developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we’ve shipped highly requested features like direct messages and video.
https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a
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Apply now to become a Neo Scholar! Some existing new info in here:
neo.substack.com/p/future-tec...
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Future tech leaders: Neo Scholar applications are open.
Past Neo Scholars are crushing it in AI and beyond.
https://neo.substack.com/p/future-tech-leaders-neo-scholar-applications
over 1 year ago
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SF friends, join a fireside chat with me and Rose 🌹 from Bluesky (
@Rose.bsky.team
) on June 26th evening at CANOPY.
www.canopy.space/events/a-str...
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A Mentor’s Fireside Chat, with Neo CEO, Ali Partovi | CANOPY
Hear battle stories from Ali Partovi, an early investor in Airbnb, Dropbox, and Facebook, and learn how he's scaling Neo, a diverse mentorship community and VC fund investing in people. Mr. Partovi wi...
https://www.canopy.space/events/a-strategists-fireside-chat-with-neo-ceo-ali-partovi-interviewed-by-bluesky-coo-rose-wang/
over 1 year ago
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I'm proud of this profile of Neo and me. "We hope to invest throughout a person's life cycle and regardless of directions that they take," he said. "You miss a lot if you're focused transactionally and treat a person as just serving one purpose."
www.businessinsider.com/ali-partovi-...
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Ali Partovi learned to code in a war zone. Now, he's trying to build a new kind of venture fund.
Ali Partovi learned to code amid the Iran-Iraq War. Today, he's one of Silicon Valley's top seed investors.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ali-partovi-trying-to-build-new-kind-of-venture-fund-2024-4
over 1 year ago
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I ❤️ Treehacks lol
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TikTok - Make Your Day
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8w4PDHj/
almost 2 years ago
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Welcome world! ❤️
almost 2 years ago
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Goodbye Sunriver, Oregon. Final night of Neo Accelerator startup bootcamp was amazing, complete with casino night and meteor shower.
over 2 years ago
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Joe Biden’s China strategy (continuation of Trump's) is not working. It's time for fresh thinking. Thank you to the Economist for daring to say the obvious.
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/08/10/joe-bidens-china-strategy-is-not-working
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Joe Biden’s China strategy is not working
Supply chains are becoming more tangled and opaque
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/08/10/joe-bidens-china-strategy-is-not-working
over 2 years ago
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Congratulations to Saturn for hitting #4 on the App Store (#2 in social media) -- an incredible feat! I'm proud that we at Neo invested in this company Saturn is a social app for connecting in the real world. It helps gets students off their screens and spending time together.
over 2 years ago
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I enjoyed interviewing Alfred Lin and Sumaiya Balbale of Sequoia for tonight's Neo Scholar event. I particularly love Alfred's stories about his mischievous childhood money-making schemes. 😍
over 2 years ago
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I had a blast at the Neo Scholar Finalist meetup for students and startups tonight in SF. It was wonderful to meet so many fresh faces and brilliant minds.
over 2 years ago
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Lola's first day of school!
over 2 years ago
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Why are the words "tweet" and "retweet" registered trademarks? There's a clear argument that these have been generic words all along and not corporate brands -- doubly so now that Twitter is changing its name to "X" and there are many alternative places to tweet and retweet.
over 2 years ago
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These scientists intentionally misled the world. Read their newly-exposed messages, plotting how to mislead.
https://open.substack.com/pub/public/p/top-scientists-misled-congress-about
over 2 years ago
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Ali Partovi
Varun Nair
over 2 years ago
It's great to see Neo being committed providing great opportunities to founders while being equitable!
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I'm excited to share that we at Neo have backed Bluesky and led their $8M seed round!
https://neo.substack.com/p/neo-backs-bluesky?utm_medium=email
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Neo backs Bluesky
We’ve led Bluesky’s $8 million seed financing and are humbled to be joined by an amazing cast of other investors in this round.
https://neo.substack.com/p/neo-backs-bluesky?utm_medium=email
over 2 years ago
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Six years after starting Neo, we've raised $235 million and revealed some of our backers for the first time.
https://open.substack.com/pub/neo/p/neo-has-raised-235m-in-new-funds
over 2 years ago
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At Neo we've invested $100M (almost half our capital) in women and underrepresented CEOs, while beating the VC industry's target returns.
neo.substack.com/p/neo-has-inve…
over 2 years ago
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Six years after starting Neo, I'm proud to say we've invested $100M (almost half our capital) into women and underrepresented CEOs, while beating industry target returns. This shares the effort we put into this:
https://neo.substack.com/p/neo-has-invested-100m-in-women-and
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Neo has invested $100M in women & underrepresented CEOs
That’s 45% of all our capital deployed since inception.
https://neo.substack.com/p/neo-has-invested-100m-in-women-and
over 2 years ago
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Excited to be here, and I look forward to all that's to come from
@jay.bsky.team
! 👀
over 2 years ago
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