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title: alice-example
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# Alice Example

CEO of acme-example. Met at a YC dinner in 2024. Background: ex-distributed-
systems engineer at widget-co before founding acme-example.

## Track record

Shipped two prior companies. The first was an unremarkable infrastructure
play that got acqui-hired in 2019. The second was a marketplace that
plateaued at modest ARR and the team got laid off in early 2023.

acme-example pivoted from a developer-tools product into a vertical-AI play
in late 2024 after the original positioning didn't find traction. Recent
investor calls suggest the new direction is hitting product-market fit
indicators (low churn, fast retention curves).

## Notes

I think Alice is one of the technically strongest founders in the current
batch. The pivot was decisive and well-executed — the kind of move only a
founder with deep customer instinct can make on the timeline she did.

The bet I want to record: acme-example will hit a meaningful ARR milestone by mid-2027 if
they hold the current trajectory. That's a high-conviction call (~0.8) and
my track record on similar marketplace-adjacent calls has been mixed —
Brier in this domain is closer to 0.25 than to my overall 0.18.
