Omid Rooholfada

co-founder @useMotion

[Stefan Schubert @StefanFSchubert]

Most reasonable high salience AI leader?

[Omid Rooholfada @ORooholfada]

@griffinli_ Thanks for making this! I would love a button to book both lyft and uber at the same time. Then once one books a ride, automatically cancel the other. I do this manually whenever the prices are similar.

[Chander ரமேஷ் @chander]

I hate to say it, but @dhh is right.

Bought a Beelink ($800) instead of M4 Pro Max ($5000).

96 fucking GB of Ram, 2TB of SSD.

2.5M lines of code builds in 61 seconds.

and now I can't go back. Really great job to the @OmarchyLinux team.

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

Unless you are already rich,

Your own startup should be the best investment you’ll ever make — if it’s worth anything at all.

Let other stuff go. Just put your cash into VTI/VOO. Take that one extra meeting. Push on to find that better CTO. Go visit that customer IRL. Stay.

[Chander ரமேஷ் @chander]

It is time to say goodbye. At the peak our TypeScript monorepo was ~2.5 million lines of code (excluding comments, node_modules, etc.). This is not a post hating on TypeScript though.

Motion would likely not have survived until today without it. We have pivoted 20x times 😂.

[Harry Qi @harryqi666]

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.

[Harry Qi @harryqi666]

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.

[Omid Rooholfada @ORooholfada]

@chander is an absolute beast 💪

[Chander ரமேஷ் @chander]

My son was born.
And an hour later, I was debugging code for a customer demo… in the In-N-Out drive-through line (my wife's favorite).

This isn’t normal. But I knew Motion wasn't normal going in. This is the story of how I became a Co-Founder at Motion.

[Omid Rooholfada @ORooholfada]

Thanks so much for all your help @aaron_epstein, from the early YC days to now!

[Aaron Epstein @aaron_epstein]

Congrats to @useMotion on their $60M fundraise at $550m!

I still remember early in the batch when @harryqi666 told me he gave up his seven-figure quant job at 23 to start Motion. It wasn't a tough decision for him, he was just betting on himself.

[Omid Rooholfada @ORooholfada]

+1
while reminiscing ahead of our recent announcement, I realized I wish I we had taken more pictures of the dingy airbnb's and the early victories

[Anjney Midha @AnjneyMidha]

If you’re a founder, I’m begging you - take more pictures

Of the big wins. The little moments. Your first all hands. That first customer closing.

Startups are a road trip. Enjoy the ride.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Congrats to the @useMotion team on their $60M in funding at a $550M valuation!

Motion is building the first agentic work suite for SMBs. Imagine the Microsoft suite, if it were built today with AI Agents natively embedded.

https://t.co/VIUy8zwA1f

[Omid Rooholfada @ORooholfada]

@harryqi666 🚀

[Omid Rooholfada @ORooholfada]

I remember that Christmas Eve vividly. Amazing to look back and see how far we've come. So proud of the team we've assembled and the all the customers we've helped. So much still to do, so exciting!!

[Harry Qi @harryqi666]

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.

[Omid Rooholfada @ORooholfada]

@cursor_ai Great work @LDanilek!!

[Omid Rooholfada @ORooholfada]

I would love this so much (even though it would mean additional engineering work for us in the short term 😂)

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Looks like the people want to abolish the annoying time changes!

[Omid Rooholfada @ORooholfada]

@TylerBevacqua AI

[Omid Rooholfada @ORooholfada]

@mic_themacguy @useMotion @lem0nbutter We're working on it now :) It'll take us a couple months to get it ready, but it's coming

[Omid Rooholfada @ORooholfada]

@KeepProductive @useMotion Desktop's already available :) https://t.co/cu4VQVD0NP

[Omid Rooholfada @ORooholfada]

@lemonvinci Season 1 is the best one!