Ali Rowghani

Is an Iranian-born American businessman.

Worked in finance at Pixar for nine years, serving as Chief Financial Officer between 2002 and 2008.

In 2008, he left Pixar to become CFO for Twitter, a post he held for four years until he became Twitter's Chief operating officer. He left Twitter in 2014.

In November 2014, Rowghani joined Y Combinator as a part-time partner focusing on helping YC alumni scale their companies.

He launched Continuity, a $700 million investment growth-stage fund, which was closed in 2015.

He is now a managing partner of YC Continuity at Y Combinator.