Ali Rohde
Ali Rohde

About

I’m co-founder and General Partner at Outset Capital, an early-stage firm investing in AI.

I run podcast 18 Minutes or Less and write Ali Rohde Jobs, a 25K+ subscriber newsletter sharing Chief of Staff, BizOps, and VC openings. I helped build VC Sheet for founders to find the best-fit investors for them.

I’m active on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

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Favorite quotes

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

When a great team meets a lousy market, market wins. When a lousy team meets a great market, market wins. When a great team meets a great market, something special happens.

Andy Rachleff

Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Abraham Lincoln

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower