How This Founder Built a $30B AI Startup That’s Disrupting Finance with Alexander Harmsen
Description
What does it take to build an AI startup that manages over $30 billion in assets and challenges everything we know about investing?
In this episode of Tenacity with Sonia C, Sonia sits down with Alexander Harmsen, founder of PortfolioPilot.com, a next-gen AI financial advisor transforming how we manage money, risk, and decision-making. A serial entrepreneur, YC alum, and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Alexander previously founded and sold Iris Automation, worked on NASA’s Mars Helicopter, and raised over $30M in venture capital.
You’ll learn:
- How AI is disrupting traditional financial advising
- Why founders struggle with financial decision-making, and how tech can help
- Lessons from scaling two AI startups, raising capital, and going through Y Combinator
- The psychology behind investor mistakes, and how PortfolioPilot corrects them
Whether you’re building a startup, investing in tech, or looking to understand where AI in finance is headed next, this episode delivers actionable insights and founder wisdom.
🎧 Tune in to learn what it really takes to scale a high-impact AI company
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