Hashem Aly

CMO at @iVoiceUp

[Hashem Aly @Shooommi]

@markgurman No one wanted an iPhone mini . Everyone (not the twittersphere) will want a MacBook neo.

[Hashem Aly @Shooommi]

Based on user feedback I added the following:

Career Navigator — Your personalized career compass. Upload your CV and let AI map out your strongest career paths. Get role recommendations ranked by fit score, a step-by-step growth roadmap, and direct links to courses that close your skill gaps. Whether you're exploring options or planning a pivot, Career Navigator turns uncertainty into a clear plan — in English or Arabic.

Target Role Tracking — Set your sights, track your progress. Choose up to three target roles and monitor your readiness score (0–100) as you grow. Each target comes with a structured action plan you can move through (To Do → In Progress → Done), plus a timeline that logs every milestone. Edit, reorder, or remove targets as your goals evolve.

This follows the initially released feature:

Application Analysis — Paste a job description and your CV. AI identifies the gap between them, rewrites your CV summary and experience bullets to match the role, highlights missing keywords, and generates tailored interview prep questions — all in seconds.

[Hashem Aly @Shooommi]

I built something that feels very personal to me.

Years ago, right out of college, I created https://t.co/CIziM1bwCc to help connect job seekers with employers in Egypt. It did not work out the way I had hoped. The market was tough, the incumbents were strong, and I was probably too early in some ways and too naive in others.

But some ideas stay with you.

Today, with AI, I felt it was worth revisiting that original idea — but from a different angle.

Instead of building another job board, I built Kareerak AI: a tool that helps candidates instantly improve a job application by pasting a job description and uploading or pasting a CV, then getting:

•a fit score
•key gaps
•a stronger professional summary
•rewritten bullet points
•missing keywords
•interview prep

In both English and Arabic.

The goal is simple:
help people see how much stronger their application could be in minutes.

Would love honest feedback from anyone hiring, job searching, or building in this space.

[Hashem Aly @Shooommi]

Don’t underestimate the amount of non technical people that want to build apps. On replit I can build, create a domain, go live, publish on the App Store without all the hassle that comes with it.

Can’t say I can do the process end to end using Claude. Will they get there? Maybe , but I assume replit will always be ahead when it comes to app building for mere mortals

[Hashem Aly @Shooommi]

https://t.co/vtgyibs40W

[Hashem Aly @Shooommi]

@business @akamoosamin congrats !

[Hashem Aly @Shooommi]

Just launched our new website https://t.co/3e5LWXgDRu

[Hashem Aly @Shooommi]

proud of our work with mylerz https://t.co/iD8Ol7SvI0

[Naval @naval]

Marketing is a creative and adversarial game. Channels get discovered, exploited, and discarded. New products need new distribution.

It’s hard to hire rule-breakers, so the best marketers tend to be the founders themselves.

[Hashem Aly @Shooommi]

Underrated superpower

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

One of my favorite lessons I’ve learnt from working with smart people:

Action produces information. If you’re unsure of what to do, just do anything, even if it’s the wrong thing. This will give you information about what you should actually be doing.

Sounds simple on the surface - the hard part is making it part of your every day working process.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The picture belongs in the history books about Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

[Hashem Aly @Shooommi]

@mattturck How much would you credit this to Sergey being back at Google?

[Hashem Aly @Shooommi]

100%

[Naval @naval]

Founders can delegate everything except recruiting, fundraising, strategy, and product vision.

[Hashem Aly @Shooommi]

@amasad @Replit Been waiting for this! Well done!

[Hashem Aly @Shooommi]

Startups need more people like @balajis. Free radicals, disagreeable but add tremendous value because they cut through the bullshit.

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Brian Armstrong on what he learned about management from Balaji Srinivasan

“Balaji is a brilliant guy. He’s probably one of the top couple smartest people I’ve ever met in my life,” Brian begins. “He was briefly the Chief Technology Officer of Coinbase. He came in through an acquisition and did some amazing work. And he taught me how to manage a totally different type of person.”

Brian continues:

“Balaji is kind of unmanageable. He’s what some people might call a ‘free radical’ within an organization. He kind of bounces around, absorbing vast amounts of information — even things that aren’t his responsibility — and occasionally he would come back to me with these incredible insights.”

Brian gives one funny example:

“At one point he came back to me and said, ‘These are all the salespeople that are making more revenue than their salary, and these are all the people that are not.’ And the first thought I had was, ‘You’re not supposed to have access to anybody’s salary. How did you get that?’”

Balaji replied, “Don’t worry about it. I found it in some database that I wasn’t supposed to have access to.”

The next question Brian asked was, “How did you connect that all up?”

The previous week Brian asked the data team to connect Salesforce to Coinbase’s salary data so they could start running some reports to have more accountability. But it was supposed to be a three-week project.

Balaji responded, “Oh well I couldn’t sleep this weekend, and I just knew something felt off. So I had to code it up and put it all together.”

When the data team completed their analysis three weeks later, they confirmed that Balaji was 100% right.

“He was continually doing things like that,” Brian explains. “And he’s incredibly high in disagreeableness, which I learned from him as well. He would go into a team and ask, ‘Why isn’t this functioning well?’ And he would suffer no fools. He would not be afraid to go in there and turn half the people on a team — whether he had the permission to fire them or not… He was a very contrarian figure. I’d say about once a week someone would come into my office and say, ‘I can’t work with Balaji. He’s causing so much collateral damage.’ And I’d say, ‘Yes, but he’s also generating an enormous amount of value and I need you to learn how to work with him.’”

Brian knew Balaji wasn’t going to last forever at Coinbase because it was incredibly disruptive, but ultimately he taught Brian how to be a “turnaround CEO” when needed:

“In the past I was opting a little more toward trying to be liked instead of being clear about what we’re doing, where we’re going, and what the bar is. He helped me become a better CEO and have a little more disagreeableness.”

Video source: @stripe (2025)

[Hashem Aly @Shooommi]

@paulg Thank you Paul for choosing the difficult but right stance. History will remember you as someone who spoke the truth even at great personal cost to your image and reputation.

[Hashem Aly @Shooommi]

@AfcCjay Sergio Ramos

[Flo Crivello @Altimor]

The Apple Watch Series 10 has more than 10x more compute power than the Sun server farm that rendered the original Toy Story

[Hashem Aly @Shooommi]

@amasad Courageous take on Palestine. Not an easy stance in Silicon Valley I’m sure.

[Hashem Aly @Shooommi]

@petergyang Customer service