Most builders don’t become investors. I’m looking for someone who breaks that pattern and wants to join me @firstround to support the next generation of brilliant founders with a unique insight that’s highly technical. I spent my career working on products like Gmail’s user interface, Facebook’s Newsfeed, Twitter’s timeline and Dropbox’s bottom-up revenue engine — all products that are extremely technical under the hood but simple and powerful to the user. I also founded a company back in 2013. I always loved working with investors who thought like builders — because they were builders. Many VCs pattern match on metrics, TAM, and “heat” in a sector. Few can spot technical breakthroughs before they're obvious. Even fewer can help founders navigate the journey from technical insight to compelling product. In this role, that would be your day job. I’m looking for someone who’s: - Been deep in the technical weeds — shipping code to production, scaling systems, building devtools or open source projects. - Naturally drawn to the cutting edge — reading research papers, testing new programming tools, and forming strong opinions on where technology is headed. - Thinking about business models as much as technical architecture — studying great infra and security companies, and caring equally about pricing models as the developer experience. - Already embedded in the startup ecosystem — going to AI hackathons on weekends, joining dev communities, or being the person founder friends turn to for technical advice. So if you’re merely interested in startups, this role isn’t for you. If you love the idea of investing but haven’t actually built anything, it’s also not for you. This opportunity is perfect for someone who wants to go seriously deep on learning the craft of early-stage investing and becoming an essential partner to pre-product-market fit founders. To be clear, this is more of an apprenticeship, not a shortcut to leading your own deals. You’ll work closely with me to develop a strong technical investing perspective, learning how to spot and support pre-PMF founders. This role is based in the Bay Area. If you’re interested, apply below. 👇

Rocketship is an overused term. But it’s hard to come up with another way to describe @FAL’s trajectory — going from $1M to $40M ARR in one year is more vertical line than hockey stick. Their crazy focus on performance and reliability have meant that they’ve built what developers and enterprises actually need to deploy AI-driven media creation at scale, handling over 100 million inference requests daily with 99.99% uptime. That's why companies like Quora, Canva, and Amazon Ads rely on their platform for image generation — and why @burkaygur and @gorkemyurt are perfectly positioned for the next wave of generative video. Their recent AI video starter kit (an open-source, in-browser editor for AI video, linked below) was the first of many cool launches they have up their sleeve this year. Proud @firstround had the chance to back this team from the seed. This is a team that saw where the puck was going and furiously built ahead of the curve. This time next year, even these numbers will look small. 😉