Olesya from Motion

Hiring former YC founder for your startup? That’s awesome. Hiring former YC Partner for your startup? That’s unheard of. Today, we welcome Ashu - former YC Visiting Partner and Founder/CEO of Make School which he brought to 8 figure revenue and raised $40m for - as a fulltime team member of Motion’s product & engineering org, where he’ll be leading some exciting new agentic products.

When we were at $15M ARR, Michael Seibel told us we were f*cked. No path to $1B ARR. We weren't delivering enough value to customers. Motion was just a “very nice to have.” Here’s what we did about it.

When Chander joined Motion 3.5 years ago to lead engineering, we both thought he'd quit by now - he'd always wanted to start his own startup. But today, Motion is his own startup, as a co-founder. This was not a light decision - the bar we have for any team member is insanely high, let alone a co-founder. The decision was made for one reason only: increase in Motion's probability of winning. And that delta is just as high for Chander, as for Ethan, Omid, and myself. Chander has the highest pain tolerance out of any human I've ever met. Yes - sometimes, that's not a good thing: he always wants to fly Spirit economy and gets f*ked with delayed flights. His pick of 2-star hotels for offsites is always veto'ed by me. But sometimes, the willingness to suffer more pain than our competitors is our moat. We are willing to grind the hours and go through pain no one else can tolerate. And that's why we are winning. Welcome Chander - to the next decade.

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On Christmas Eve 2019, Michael Seibel, then CEO of YC, called me: “You might not be cut out to be a founder.” He was right. We had pivoted 20 times. I thought I could always return to my 7-figure quant job. That night, I realized: you commit or you quit. Fast forward: Motion raised $60M at $550M. Michael is now a personal investor.

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