When Harry Qi was 23 years old, he had a financial success that most people would never receive: earning about $ 10 million a year.
He was working as “a quantity” in his first job outside college. This hedge fund speaks for a stock trading analyst in a statistical model -driven “quant” fund. But, like many people who spend their energies in pursuit of more money, they felt empty.
“At some point you just want to have a lot of impact on this world,” Qi, who is now 29 years old, told Tech Crunch.
So in 2019, he and his high school friend, Omd Rohulifada, as well as Ethan Yu (Qi’s friend from college – also working in the hedge fund, Qi’s friend) created an AI calendar and task management app and applied to the Y -Combinator. They were accepted in the winter in 2020 and quit jobs immediately to become the founder. Motion then added the fourth co -founder, Chandra Ramesh, the first co -founder.
In the next six years, in May, he permanently extended the customer base of most professional consumers of Motion, launching an integrated AI agent bundle for small and medium -sized businesses.
They saw that the use of their agent bundle exploded. Qi told Tech Crunch, in four months, only his business segment increased by 10,000 B2B users and Million in the Arr to 10 million.
His growth resulted in a series of $ 38 million in a series of five times higher, led by Stacey Bishop in Scale Venture Partners, and a speeding C2 round over a post -$ 550 million post -C2 round.
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Startup has collected $ 75 million from signal fires with the participation of HOF Capital, 468 capital, and Signal Fire, such as Welver Equity Partners, Fellows Fund, Luns Capital, and some other major names such as Ultman Brothers. Qi says that the Wi -Combinator has also invested in every period.
The company is doing so well that from its YC days, QI’s executive coach, and YC Advisor, Ashutosh Desai, also joined as a complete timer.
The movement is specially developed by a small medium -sized business, which does not have a budget of business dollars to write and train its agents.
His appeal is that all agent functions (each with different human names) are connected with others. So far the Sweet includes a “Executive Assistant” to automate, take notes, automate email responses. A sales representative; Customer Support Rap; And a blog and social media post written marketing assistant.
The agents are also connected with hundreds of other common SMB tools such as silk, Google apps, teams, sales force, etc. Prices are from $ 29 per month for 1 seat, 1,000 credit and limited agent functions, 25 seats and $ 600 for all agents, 250,000 credit. Then from there custom pricing.
The Qi Microsoft Office looks like an agent equalizing the movement. “There is a chance to build the next Microsoft,” he said. “Basically you have to produce all applications.” This point is contrary to buying AI products-a sales rap, a customer service boot, blog writer-who doesn’t work together.
Despite the confessed “tension”, he endures the AI as a founder building in the rapidly changing field, saying he will not return to his old life. She is based on texting friends with many of her users and every day one of them tells her how movement makes her life easier, increases their productivity or revenue.
He joking, “If I am responding very honestly, I’m speaking financially, it was still a bad decision. I am probably earning between three and ten million in a year,” he also said that his now, the founder of the early stage, the founder of the early stage, is still comfortable. But he also dreams of creating a sustainable company like Microsoft.
“Was it the right way?” He shakes his head thinking about his users. “The thing that removes you from bed is just to know that you have made something useful.”