2x founder
Simon Farshid
Founder of assistant-ui (YC W25)
2024Founder· assistant-ui (YC W25)
Founder · since 2021Company
assistant-ui (YC W25)
Role
Founder
current
Stage
—
no public source
Raised
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no public source
Based
United States
current
Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role
Source: LinkedIn work historyProfile coverage5 of 7 · missing posts, contact
Experience
Career
2024assistant-ui (YC W25)
FounderFounder · United States · 2024 – Present
2021READO
Co-founderCo-Founder & CTO · Frankfurt am Main, Germany · 2021 – 2022
2021DZ BANK AG
Consultant Strategy and Planning · Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany · 2021
2018Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Research Assistant · Frankfurt am Main, Germany · 2018 – 2019
2015Self Employed
Freelance Software Engineer · 2015 – 2017
Bio
Simon is the Founder and CEO of assistant-ui. He previously co-founded READO, a book recommendation engine, and grew it to 140k MAUs. Simon started coding at age 12 and has won 8 hackathons in 5 countries.