First Harmonic

If we ever get an office I hope it vibes like this

I’m excited to announce the public launch of First Harmonic. We are a small team of former operators who invest in early-stage companies and run what I believe is the world’s best go-to-market program for seed-stage founders. We have run six cohorts of the program to date with an NPS of 100 across the nearly 50 founders who have participated. Over a long career in tech, I’ve had the privilege of working with Steve Jobs and Ed Catmull at Pixar, of taking Twitter from $0 in revenue through IPO as the CFO and COO, and of mentoring hundreds of founders at all stages in 10 years as a YC partner. I’ve also been fortunate to invest as an early angel in several breakout AI companies, including Mercor, Decagon, and Cursor. I’ve seen the arc from inception to IPO many times and recognize what separates winning startups from the pack. It's this multi-stage experience as an operator and investor that is uniquely valuable to the founders in our program. What’s this program about? A common challenge that all founders face in the early days is defining their ideal initial customer. Great go-to-market strategy begins with narrow customer selection. Every important decision is downstream of customer definition: roadmap priorities, customer acquisition strategy, sales model, pricing, etc. If you don’t define your customer well, everything else becomes extra hard. In our program, we help founders nail early customer definition through intensive 1:1 work. It’s the point of highest leverage. Our cohorts are small (10 to 12 companies), and we don’t accept applications. Instead, we select founders who have been nominated by people we trust, increasingly by alumni of our program. The program requires a 3–4 hour weekly time commitment over 8 weeks and sets startups on the right go-to-market path for life. The program will always be free and non-dilutive to founders. In order to make this possible, we’ve raised an early-stage fund that covers the costs of running the program. But there are no investment expectations or strings attached to participating. If you’re an early-stage founder, you can read more about what we believe in the link in comments. If you’re a seed investor, we hope to collaborate with you.

I’m excited to announce the public launch of First Harmonic. We are a small team of former operators who invest in early-stage companies and run what I believe is the world’s best go-to-market program for seed-stage founders. We have run six cohorts of the program to date with an NPS of 100 across the nearly 50 founders who have participated. Over a long career in tech, I’ve had the privilege of working with Steve Jobs and Ed Catmull at Pixar, of taking Twitter from $0 in revenue through IPO as the CFO and COO, and of mentoring hundreds of founders at all stages in 10 years as a YC partner. I’ve also been fortunate to invest as an early angel in several breakout AI companies, including Mercor, Decagon, and Cursor. I’ve seen the arc from inception to IPO many times and recognize what separates winning startups from the pack. It's this multi-stage experience as an operator and investor that is uniquely valuable to the founders in our program. What’s this program about? A common challenge that all founders face in the early days is defining their ideal initial customer. Great go-to-market strategy begins with narrow customer selection. Every important decision is downstream of customer definition: roadmap priorities, customer acquisition strategy, sales model, pricing, etc. If you don’t define your customer well, everything else becomes extra hard. In our program, we help founders nail early customer definition through intensive 1:1 work. It’s the point of highest leverage. Our cohorts are small (10 to 12 companies), and we don’t accept applications. Instead, we select founders who have been nominated by people we trust, increasingly by alumni of our program. The program requires a 3–4 hour weekly time commitment over 8 weeks and sets startups on the right go-to-market path for life. The program will always be free and non-dilutive to founders. In order to make this possible, we’ve raised an early-stage fund that covers the costs of running the program. But there are no investment expectations or strings attached to participating. If you’re an early-stage founder, you can read more about what we believe in the link in comments. If you’re a seed investor, we hope to collaborate with you.

I’m excited to announce the public launch of First Harmonic. We are a small team of former operators who invest in early-stage companies and run what I believe is the world’s best go-to-market program for seed-stage founders. We have run six cohorts of the program to date with an NPS of 100 across the nearly 50 founders who have participated. Over a long career in tech, I’ve had the privilege of working with Steve Jobs and Ed Catmull at Pixar, of taking Twitter from $0 in revenue through IPO as the CFO and COO, and of mentoring hundreds of founders at all stages in 10 years as a YC partner. I’ve also been fortunate to invest as an early angel in several breakout AI companies, including Mercor, Decagon, and Cursor. I’ve seen the arc from inception to IPO many times and recognize what separates winning startups from the pack. It's this multi-stage experience as an operator and investor that is uniquely valuable to the founders in our program. What’s this program about? A common challenge that all founders face in the early days is defining their ideal initial customer. Great go-to-market strategy begins with narrow customer selection. Every important decision is downstream of customer definition: roadmap priorities, customer acquisition strategy, sales model, pricing, etc. If you don’t define your customer well, everything else becomes extra hard. In our program, we help founders nail early customer definition through intensive 1:1 work. It’s the point of highest leverage. Our cohorts are small (10 to 12 companies), and we don’t accept applications. Instead, we select founders who have been nominated by people we trust, increasingly by alumni of our program. The program requires a 3–4 hour weekly time commitment over 8 weeks and sets startups on the right go-to-market path for life. The program will always be free and non-dilutive to founders. In order to make this possible, we’ve raised an early-stage fund that covers the costs of running the program. But there are no investment expectations or strings attached to participating. If you’re an early-stage founder, you can read more about what we believe in the link in comments. If you’re a seed investor, we hope to collaborate with you.

I’m super excited to launch what we’ve been working on quietly for quite some time now! A new, free, go to market program for founders. We are six cohorts in, with an NPS of 100 so far. It’s been so fun to run and to know that my prior experience as a founder can help others

I’m excited to announce the public launch of First Harmonic. We are a small team of former operators who invest in early-stage companies and run what I believe is the world’s best go-to-market program for seed-stage founders. We have run six cohorts of the program to date with an NPS of 100 across the nearly 50 founders who have participated. Over a long career in tech, I’ve had the privilege of working with Steve Jobs and Ed Catmull at Pixar, of taking Twitter from $0 in revenue through IPO as the CFO and COO, and of mentoring hundreds of founders at all stages in 10 years as a YC partner. I’ve also been fortunate to invest as an early angel in several breakout AI companies, including Mercor, Decagon, and Cursor. I’ve seen the arc from inception to IPO many times and recognize what separates winning startups from the pack. It's this multi-stage experience as an operator and investor that is uniquely valuable to the founders in our program. What’s this program about? A common challenge that all founders face in the early days is defining their ideal initial customer. Great go-to-market strategy begins with narrow customer selection. Every important decision is downstream of customer definition: roadmap priorities, customer acquisition strategy, sales model, pricing, etc. If you don’t define your customer well, everything else becomes extra hard. In our program, we help founders nail early customer definition through intensive 1:1 work. It’s the point of highest leverage. Our cohorts are small (10 to 12 companies), and we don’t accept applications. Instead, we select founders who have been nominated by people we trust, increasingly by alumni of our program. The program requires a 3–4 hour weekly time commitment over 8 weeks and sets startups on the right go-to-market path for life. The program will always be free and non-dilutive to founders. In order to make this possible, we’ve raised an early-stage fund that covers the costs of running the program. But there are no investment expectations or strings attached to participating. If you’re an early-stage founder, you can read more about what we believe in the link in comments. If you’re a seed investor, we hope to collaborate with you.