Daniel Ahmadizadeh

CEO

Brooklyn, New York, United States15 yrs 5 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led two Y Combinator-backed companies as CEO.
  • Scaled Crustdata from $700K to $6M ARR in 2025.
  • Teaching entrepreneurship at top universities.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS entrepreneur with a strong focus on startup growth and education.

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Skills

Core Skills

GrowthData AnalysisFounder CoachingProject Management

Other Skills

APIsStart With One FrameworkTool DevelopmentMarketingMarketing StrategyPublic SpeakingResearchLeadershipFundraisingNonprofitsMicrosoft OfficeSocial MediaSocial NetworkingPowerPointSocial Entrepreneurship

About

Over the past decade, I’ve led two Y Combinator-backed companies as CEO, served as a founder coach, fractional CEO, COO, angel investor, and held a residency at TED. I'm now growing Crustdata, a Y Combinator startup. In 2025, we scaled from $700K to $6M ARR. Additionally, I teach entrepreneurship at Stanford University, Columbia University, and D.Y. Patil Business School, where I’m helping shape the next generation of entrepreneurs. My framework, Start With One, is transforming how entrepreneurship is taught and measured globally. Every Saturday at 10am ET, I host a free Start With One office hour via Zoom.

Experience

15 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs
Current Experience

Crustdata (yc f24)

Growth - Realtime People and Company Data via APIs

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Brooklyn, NY

  • Y Combinator backed startup. $600k to $6.2m ARR growth in 2025.
GrowthAPIsData Analysis

Dr. d. y. patil vidyapeeth, global business school & research centre

Professor

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Teaching 200+ MBA students the 'Start With One' framework in our semester-long 'Startup and New Venture Management' course.

Stanford university

Course Instructor

May 2024Present · 2 yrs

  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Columbia university

Course Instructor

May 2023Present · 3 yrs · New York, New York, United States · On-site

Orange collective

Partner

May 2023Present · 3 yrs

South park commons

Member

Mar 2021Sep 2024 · 3 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Maslo

Co-Founder and CEO

Feb 2021Jan 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · New York, United States

Marathon laps

Start With One | Founder Coach, Fractional Founder, and Building Projects

Jan 2021Present · 5 yrs 4 mos

  • At Marathon Laps, we specialize in working exclusively with Y Combinator-backed startups. Our dedicated team collaborates closely with founders to change their company's trajectory using our unique Start With One framework. We take on roles as founder coaches, fractional CEOs, interim COOs, Chief of Staffs, and board members.
  • We've partnered with companies such as Haystack Analytics, AngleHealth, Motion, Compound, Odys Aviation, Unthread, Narrator, Eduflow, Pipekit, SuperTokens, and Krokit, among others.
  • We take pride in having contributed to their significant milestones, including achieving profitability, securing funding rounds, and enhancing overall founder effectiveness.
  • Additionally, we build our own tools. Currently we are building Time, a personalized system for heart attack prevention, as well as Circles, an accountability platform for tech founders to reach their goals.
  • https://time1s.com/
  • https://www.joincircles.so/
Founder CoachingProject ManagementStart With One Framework

Persistiq

2 roles

Chief Executive Officer

Sep 2019Jan 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Y-Combinator backed startup acquired by Wishpond Technologies (WISH.V)

GM

May 2019Sep 2019 · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Ted conferences

TED Resident

Apr 2016Jul 2016 · 3 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • https://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_ahmadizadeh_the_art_of_hustle

Riley

Co-Founder and CEO

Nov 2014Mar 2019 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Riley is a Y Combinator-backed (W17) startup based in San Francisco. Shortly after demo day, Riley raised a $3.1m seed round from Fuel Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Social Capital, Y Combinator, amongst others. More information can be found here: https://angel.co/getrileynow

Major league hacking

Hackathon Hacker

Jun 2014Nov 2014 · 5 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Major League Hacking is the official student Hackathon League that supports hundreds of hackathons around the world to provide more value to student developers and the companies that care about them.

Watsi

Operations Intern

Nov 2013Dec 2013 · 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Watsi is a global crowdfunding platform for healthcare that enables anyone to directly fund low-cost, high-impact medical care for people in need.
  • Learn more at http://watsi.org/

Uprising ventures

Summer Associate

May 2013Sep 2013 · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Uprising is a mission-driven venture capital firm.
  • @Lyft, @LendingClub, @Change, @Upworthy, @Zaarly

Caremessage

Summer Associate

Feb 2013Sep 2013 · 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • CareMessage is a Y Combinator-backed nonprofit leveraging text messaging and voice technology to reimagine healthcare delivery for the underserved.
  • Learn more at http://caremessage.org

Yale university

Cardiology Research Assistant

Apr 2011Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • In-vivo and vitro studies of vascular remodeling in atherosclerosis.

Stony brook university

Head Manager of Men's Division 1 Basketball Team

Jan 2010Sep 2013 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Assist with the day-to-day activities surrounding the basketball program. Film exchange, on-campus recruiting tours, practice, game day preparation, and readily available to the coaching staff.

Education

Columbia Business School

Master of Business Administration

Y Combinator

Stony Brook University

Bronx High School of Science

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