Batch 0 of Alif kicks off this Sunday. We've brought on some of the most talented founders/investors in the space as company advisors. This week, we're announcing the first of those: @FurqanR. I met Furqan at an ETHDenver dinner two and half years ago, a few months before he brought me onto Founders, Inc. as the first growth hire. He's one of the most interesting people in SF, and the first person I reached out to when the idea of launching Alif became real. His background: - Founding CTO of @AppLovin, which had a $30b IPO in 2021. - Cofounded Bebo w/ Shaan Puri, which they sold to Twitch in 2019. - Founded @fdotinc, where we've invested in and incubated over 100 companies in the past 4 years. - Founded @thirdweb in 2021, which quickly became one of the largest Web3 infra companies in the space. He'll be kicking off the batch with a talk about "ideas": what makes a good one, how to come up with them, and how to iterate through them. If you’re a founder or investor interested in advising Batch 0 companies, reach out to Shaheer at shaheer[at]alif.foundation.

Took a gap year after high school and spent 11 months building a social app... Only to find out that no one wanted it (shocking) Here's how I would start over today: