Hassan W. Bhatti

Snowflake Data Marketplace| Co-founder@CN (acq Snowflake)| Investor@Communityfund| I share insights on building start-ups and personal growth

I love building companies. Over the last 10 years, I’ve started, scaled, and exited 4 ventures—some bootstrapped to multi-million ARR, others acquired by industry leaders. Additionally - I was also fortunate to be part of Snowflake Pre-IPO to post-IPO growth phase - seeing what scaling looks like in the product and sales orgs. 

Right now, I’m deep in AI, co-running the world’s largest AI newsletter and building/researching in the Memory and AI agent space. I also invest actively—both through a fund and my own syndicate—backing founders who are building category-defining companies.

Always open to great conversations, whether it’s about building, investing, or the future of AI.

Founder roles currently (2024-Present):
- Superhuman AI (Co-leading fast growing media company)
- Stealth Co (Something in AI)

Founder roles previously (2017-2024):
- CryptoNumerics (Acquired Snowflake)
- Semantic Health (Acquired AAPC)
- Software Services business (Acquired by a family business) 
- Law Firm (Rebuilt and grew family law firm)

Previously worked at (2015-2024):
- Snowflake (Product and GTM roles)
- Iris Automation (1st Product and Biz hire)

Education:
- 2010-2015: BSc in Physics and Economics at University of British Columbia on a full ride scholarship 
- 2020-2023: LLB with Upper Second Class Honours (Grade 2:1) from University of London
- Multiple certifications in AI, business, and software from Uoft, Harvard, and other programs

Product & Partnerships - Data Marketplace 

Key focus areas:
- Native Apps (2023-Present)
- Global Lead for HCLS Vertical (2021 - 2023)
- Data Monetization Product and 0-1 growth strategy  (2021 - 2022)
- Working across all industries (2020 - 2022)
- Launched EMEA and APAC (2020-2021)
- Cryptonumerics integration (2020)

Think it. Say it. Done.

The average person spends 3 hours typing + switches 1,000 tabs per day.

That ends today.

Meet Lemon: The first voice-to-action AI agent that turns your voice commands into finished tasks.

Comment "Lemon" to get free access for 30 days.

(must be following so I can DM you)

Building | 2x exited founder (acq Snowflake) | Start-up to Post-IPO | Investor@Nextwave

If you’ve been in AI long enough, you know when something shifts.

The last 12 months the slope steepened.

Models now:
• Write and ship production-level code.
• Handle multi-step reasoning reliably.
• Work across large codebases and documents without collapsing.
• Orchestrate tools and execute structured workflows.
• Cost materially less per experiment than a year ago.

And the pace between releases is compressing.

What matters isn’t just that models are better. It’s that iteration cycles are collapsing.

You can now:
- Ship MVPs in days.
- Run 10x more experiments per sprint.
- Test product hypotheses without adding headcount.
- Refactor entire systems without touching most of the code yourself.

The builders who understand this are reorganizing around it.

Smaller teams > higher leverage > more shots on goal > faster feedback loops.

This is the first time in my career where capability, cost, and velocity all improved at once.

If you’re building on the app layer right now, this is an unusually asymmetric moment.

Lean in.

We've been extremely lucky to have some of the sharpest minds in tech sit down with us on Superhuman.

We’ve talked about 
- Building in monopolized markets
- Competing with giants
- AI-native companies
- Capital allocation
- Leadership under pressure

...and a lot more

If you care about where AI, startups, and ambition collide then this is for you.

Youtube: https://lnkd.in/eSzrdVj4
Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gWgSbXwa
Apple Podcast: https://lnkd.in/gTB2ENcU

Why is building a great team critical for entrepreneurs?

Here's ashfaq munshi, CEO of Pepperdata, talking about how your team is your biggest asset as a builder

Watch the full episode: https://lnkd.in/eQiJTSh8

Who says you can't have a little fun at work?

Founder Lowerated | AI Engineer (heylemon.ai)

Call me the Godfather or Batman, either one works.

With Lemon and your voice you can:
    - set your writing style and tone.
    - setup workflows and trigger them with a a single word 🙌

No extra menus or screens. Personalize Lemon however you want, just gotta use your voice.

Use it here: https://heylemon.ai
 
What would you teach your AI to remember?

Nathan Baugh

Consultant → writer. I study the best storytellers ever and share with you what I learn. Writing fiction and writing to 77K storytellers every Saturday. Join us 👇

Founder

I thought AI was overrated until about 3 months ago. Then last week, with the release of Opus 4.6, I swung to the complete other side of the pendulum -- this tool is wildly mispriced, it's the base layer for a new operating system, Anthropic is building the next Windows, computers in 15 years will run on the future version of CoWork and this will all be built on Code written in English by agents.

This terrifies me, I won't lie.

This weekend, I helped my wife try Claude Code. She and Claude created an app to send her a personalized newsletter every morning at 6:30 AM through its own gmail account curated to her specific interests.

I then set up Openclaw. On Telegram, I text it back and forth with ideas to build. I've got the Agent setup with a Claude API and it can also tap into Codex. We're testing app ideas that I never could've built by myself if you gave me 5 free years, and it knocks them out in about a day. It sent me an update this morning that it made a grammarly knock off that personalizes itself to the user over time. Wild, wild stuff.

I'm not telling you to go use it. I worry it'll do to our brains what Google Maps has done to our sense of direction.

However, my mind has changed. This is a complete paradigm shift in knowledge work. Not a clue what comes next but I've decided to run at it instead of run away from it.

My general thesis is the visible work -- writing, on-camera video, etc -- is more durable than the invisible work -- coding -- when it comes to AI, much like we prefer to watch 2 humans play chess rather than 2 AIs even though the AIs today trounce the humans.

Could obviously be wrong.

Will share more about my AI explorations as a non-technical guy along with the usual ideas on writing and storytelling.

Ghostwriter. Exploring the art and science of storytelling. Debut fantasy novel sometime ~soon.

If you want to improve your writing and storytelling, I urge you to read some fiction.

Not necessarily for the prose but for the structure required to move you through a story.

- Cause & effect
- Intention & obstacle
- Hooks & cliffhangers

The internal logic builds the foundation of a great story, and it’s worth reverse engineering and trying to apply the ideas to your work.

PS. I talk about this stuff every week with 112k readers: nathanbaugh.substack.com

It's been awhile since I wrote about storytelling on here. Every marketer on this site thinks they're Tolkien now, so I became disillusioned with the word. Distanced myself from it.

But as I've been exploring AI I've come back to the idea of storytelling as this layer that sits across pretty much everything. You can take someone at a random cafe in New York and drop them into your mind and experience through a story. It's not rocket science of course, but there's definitely an art and a science to it.

Sure, consider hooks and structure and pacing, but also trust your intuition. When I'm doing my best work there's almost zero thinking involved, all instinct. Then I'll come back to clean it up with my editor brain turned on.

I'm still annoyed about the psyop that's claimed my favorite word. The skill, however, I've never been more excited about.

Long form lives here: https://lnkd.in/gWXhWvT9

And if you enjoy fiction, novel comes out soon: https://lnkd.in/gTeaFfwE

Is there a great tool for linkedin analytics?

Shield’s close but not quite granular enough.

I’m less interested in follower numbers and impressions and moreso interested in the quality of the audience being built.

- Where are they?
- What level within their company?
- What industry?

You can find all that in linkedin directly but haven’t seen an external tool with it laid out in such a way I can share with a client.

PS. Yes I know Shield shares this for individual posts but that’s stupid time consuming to go through.

Here’s the problem with attribution:

1. I know of a business because I’ve followed the founder for years on twitter

2. Convo with friends around the topic

3. I don’t have link, so go to google to get link - accidentally hit sponsored link

4. Send link anyway

5. Friend applies for membership - it’ll be a low five figure a year thing

6. Business will see he clicked through Google ad

7. Attribute lead to Google ads

Reader, the Google ad did nothing, the twitter account did everything, and attribution will show the opposite.

Wonder how often this happens

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