Five Ways to F*ck up Your Fundraise with Ali Partovi, CEO at Neo

​Cringe-inducing stories of failure from Neo CEO Ali Partovi. Join us as Ali Partovi shares his advice on what to do (and what not to do) when starting a company, as well as how to prepare yourself for success when starting or joining an early stage company.

​Ali will start with a talk (30 min) and open up the floor for live Q&A with the audience (30 min).

​About Ali and Neo:

​Neo is a diverse mentorship community, startup accelerator, and VC. We help the top CS students become tomorrow's tech leaders and help startups build legendary teams. Applications for our premier undergrad Neo Scholar program will open in May, and applications for Neo Accelerator 2024 will open in Feb/March.

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​Ali Partovi, CEO, Neo

​Ali tries to make a career of investing in people smarter than himself. He has backed Airbnb, Dropbox, Facebook, & Uber. He co-founded Code.org (Hour of Code) to bring CS to classrooms. Ali grew up in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war, attended Harvard, and sold his first startup, LinkExchange, in 1998. He's passionate about sustainable food and loves climbing, snowboarding, guitar, puzzles, & family.