Thinking Like A Venture Capitalist #4
How a food delivery app I use way too much taught me that loving a product and making money from it are two completely different problems.
About me
New York City
NYU Stern
Building since 2020
Thinking like a VC
Heyo! I'm Sepehr
I like taking things apart to see how they actually make money. Sometimes that turns into a calculator, sometimes a backtesting engine, and sometimes a long breakdown of why DoorDash took eleven years to turn a profit.
I'm a first-year at NYU Stern studying Finance and AI, Computing & Data Science as a Breakthrough Scholar. Most of my building happens at Compound Labs, where I make tools that show the invisible math behind money decisions. The first one, the Regret Calculator, has reached people in 42 countries.
Right now: my first semester in Manhattan, building OpenReplay (a free, open-source backtesting engine for traders), and writing the next Thinking Like a VC.
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Worked with Exo Imaging, Central Hudson, Flowglad (YC)
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Harrison Telyan
Co-Founder @ Flowglad (YC) | Founding Designer @ Imgur
"Most early-career founders have come to me looking for a system to follow to scale their companies, but Sepehr has been one of the only ones willing to tell me mine wasn't working. He ranks in the top two of the last 50 early-career founders and interns I’ve mentored. He embodies the YC founder mindset, and I have no doubt that his combination of transparent leadership and disciplined iteration will thrive."
Skills
Full-Stack Architecture
- Next.js
- React
- Vercel Deployment
- UI/UX
Financial Data Modeling
- Compound Growth Algorithms
- Opportunity Cost Logic
- ROI Projections
Predictive Analytics & AI Strategy
- Python
- Clinical Data Analysis
- Commercial Expansion Modeling
Growth & Startup Operations
- Go-to-Market
- Community Scaling
- User Acquisition
Thoughts
Documenting the messy process of figuring it all out.
Thinking Like A Venture Capitalist #3
How the platform I kept breaking my own code on taught me that in B2B, the person who loves the product is almost never the person who pays for it.
Thinking Like A Venture Capitalist #2
How a language learning app taught me more about retention engineering and user psychology than any business course ever could.
Let’s talk.
Want to contact/or build with me?
Reach out at sepehr.zunoubi@stern.nyu.edu and I'll get back to you soon.
