Meet Ali Sina.
Founder, builder, capital partner. 15+ years operating across creative, tech, AI, design, finance, real estate, music, film, and consumer protection. 19+ companies built or backed. Author of four books. The operator behind Startup X.
Built first.
Teach second.
Startup X exists because Ali built more than a dozen real operating companies — and figured out the pattern that makes them work. The curriculum is the compressed version of that pattern.
The Operator
Founder of The Agency, Rise Capital Fund, BAM, Fascia, Insolar, Round Z, and 13+ other operating companies across creative, tech, AI, design, finance.
The Investor
Capital partner backing operator-led companies. Six-pillar thesis: Creative, AI, Media, Consumer Protection, Finance, Real Estate.
The Author
Four books on Apple Books: BAM, BC-234, Break the Simulation, and Startup X — all published through the Hard Shiver imprint.
Operator. Investor. Author.
Read the books. Take the course. Or visit Ali's operator-investor site for the full portfolio.