It is the most inspiring moment for new innovation that I've seen maybe in multiple decades.

It means a lot of things that people already depend on might be going away or might struggle to compete.

So there's potential for disruption, but it also means so many exciting new things can be

imagined that weren't possible before.

Technology, investor, entrepreneur, and mentor Ali Partovey is the CEO of Neo, a startup accelerator, mentorship community, and investment firm.

Neo's Accelerator this week announced a new AI track, working in collaboration with Open

AI and Microsoft to help startups build businesses on newly emerging artificial intelligence capabilities.

Partovi, who grew up in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war, sold his startup link exchange to

Microsoft in 1998.

He was an early investor in companies including Airbnb, Dropbox, Facebook, and Uber,

and 10 years ago, co-founded Code.org

with his twin brother, Hotti Partove,

who continues to lead the computer science education

non-profit to this day. I'm GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop.

Ali Partovey joins me on this episode of the GeekWire podcast to talk about the role that

AI will play in the startups of the future,

Microsoft's relationship with open AI.

His experience at Microsoft reporting to a young Satya Nadella

as his manager, Neo's approach to identifying and supporting a diverse group of technical and entrepreneurial leaders,

his larger takeaways from the Silicon Valley Bank meltdown, and more.

Ali Partovey, thank you very much for joining me.

Thank you so much, Todd. It's great to be here.

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