Ali Partovi

Ali Partovi cofounded LinkExchange and sold it to Microsoft when he was 26, then cofounded iLike. As an angel investor he backed Facebook, Uber, Airbnb and Dropbox. He then started Neo, a mentorship community that has backed Cursor, Kalshi and many more. He also cofounded Code.org with his brother Hadi.

We talk about why he started Neo at 45, the equity mistake he made at 23, being a people capitalist rather than a venture capitalist, the Cursor story, why he told Kalshi to sue the government, why Neo missed OpenAI and Anthropic, and the Iranian instinct to stay under the radar.