Kashif Ali

Building AI Tax Assistant for Everyone @ TaxGPT.com (YC S24)

San Francisco Bay Area

About

As the Chief Executive Officer of TaxGPT, I lead the vision and strategy of a startup that automates tax filing using artificial intelligence and natural language processing. With over 15 years of experience in digital media, web development, and entrepreneurship, I have the skills and knowledge to create innovative and user-friendly solutions for complex problems. My mission is to empower individuals and businesses to file taxes easily and accurately, saving them time and money. I also support the global founder community as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Draper University, where I help build and enable the entrepreneurial ecosystem in developing countries. I am passionate about learning, education, and digital transformation, and I constantly seek new opportunities to grow and challenge myself.

Experience

  • Founder and CEO at TaxGPT
    Feb 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

    I lead the product, sales, marketing vision, and strategy of a TaxGPT. Our mission is to save America 6.5 billion hours annually. Took product from 0 to 5000+ users in 6 months. Investor relationship

  • Founder and CEO at DAO Helper
    Jan 2022 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Collaborated with cross-functionally engineers, designers, and community developers and builders to launch products 0 to 1. Built the community of 600 users and 700+ DAOs. Led the product vision and marketing strategy. Gather product requirements through internal research, market research, customer research, and data analysis Run user research, usability studies, and data-driven experiments to inform the product direction Define success metrics, analyze performance, experiment and iterate quickly A/B testing the product landing pages and marketing campaigns.

  • Founder at CRMBase
    Feb 2020 - Jan 2022 · 2 yrs

    CRMBase is a CRM training bootcamp and a learning platform to help transition careers into no-code tech jobs like salesforce Admin, Business solution analysts. We are like Lambda school but for the CRMs. For more details visit our website. Idea generation from tissue paper to launching the platform. Maintaining overall strategic goals of the company and leadership. Building and leading the engineering and content scrum team. Marketing, speaking with customers understanding pain points. Measuring the solutions and iterate upon them. Fundraising and communication with investors and stakeholders.

  • OnDeck Fellow at On Deck
    Jun 2021 - Jul 2021 · 2 mos

    I was part of the OnDeck NYC tech drop.

  • Adobe ()
    • Salesforce Developer / Business Solution Analyst
      Nov 2017 - Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      Understands and translates the Enterprise Sales business strategy, business goals, and business processes into world-class solutions. Collaboration with various stakeholders in conceptualizes, develop, interpret, and analyze requirements to align subscription renewal status with opportunity and contract information, and ensure the accuracy of information feeding into financial reporting systems. Maintains and continuously improves Enterprise Sales processes enabled by Salesforce.com, Apttus CPQ, and related Sales and Marketing enterprise applications. Configure Salesforce.com and Apttus CPQ solutions Prepares documentation for system enhancements and customization provides training and leadership to super-users and manages user security Implement process improvements and automation to optimize operational and support processes Document solutions to enable ease of support across team members Interface on a day-to-day basis with other solution analysts, business users, engineers, QA, and IT managers to support business operations

    • Software Engineering Intern
      Jun 2017 - Oct 2017 · 5 mos

      Salesforce Developer and business solution analyst for the Enterprise sales team. Quickly learned the Salesforce and force.com platform. Development of business logic using Apex and Visualforce. Integrating cutting-edge data governance solution with Salesforce. Automating the sales process using Salesforce and Apttus CPQ's out of the box solutions. Participate in technical design of the sales org. Analyse and understand business pain points. Develop solutions and present to products owners. Validating solutions across different sandboxes and production. Communicate roadblocks and work with the offshore team.