# Alex Halliday

> Alex Halliday is the co-founder and CEO of AirOps, a content engineering platform that helps brands stay visible as search shifts from Google links to AI answers. He built fan websites that pulled roughly 30 million monthly page views as a teenager, co-founded SocialGO and became the youngest CEO of an AIM-listed company in London at 25, then moved to San Francisco and helped scale MasterClass from about $5 million to over $100 million in annual recurring revenue as its first product hire. He started AirOps in 2022 and raised a $40 million Series B led by Greylock in late 2025 at a $225 million valuation.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at AirOps
- **Organizations:** AirOps, Bungalow, MasterClass, Teespring, LawPal, SocialGO
- **From:** United Kingdom
- **Nationality:** British
- **Education:** A-levels, Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet, Attended, no degree completed, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads AirOps, a content engineering platform for the AI-search era, Raised a $40M Series B led by Greylock in November 2025 at a $225M valuation, Youngest CEO of a company listed on London's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) at age 25

## Career timeline

- **~2000** — As a teenager, builds a network of fan sites reaching nearly 30 million page views a month before the online ad market collapses
- **2003** — Leaves Queen Elizabeth's School after A-levels; spends six months in Dubai building a news website and prototyping social-network software
- **2007** — Co-founds SocialGO with Dominic Wheatley, a software-as-a-service platform for private social networks
- **~2009** — Becomes the youngest CEO of a company listed on London's AIM at age 25; SocialGO grows to around 6 million users
- **2013** — Moves to San Francisco; works across Teespring, LawPal, and MasterClass
- **2013-2018** — As MasterClass's first product hire, helps scale the company from roughly $5M to over $100M in annual recurring revenue
- **~2019** — Serves as VP of Product at Bungalow
- **2022** — Co-founds AirOps with Matt Hammel and Berna Gonzales
- **2023** — Raises $7M seed round led by Wing VC
- **2025** — Raises $40M Series B led by Greylock at a $225M valuation, bringing total funding to about $60M

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads AirOps, a content engineering platform for the AI-search era
- Raised a $40M Series B led by Greylock in November 2025 at a $225M valuation
- Youngest CEO of a company listed on London's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) at age 25
- Grew SocialGO to roughly 6 million users
- As MasterClass's first product hire, helped scale it from about $5M to over $100M in ARR
- Built a teenage fan-site network reaching nearly 30 million monthly page views

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — AirOps raised a $40 million Series B led by Greylock at a $225 million valuation, bringing total funding to roughly $60 million.

## Links

- Website: https://airops.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexhalliday
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/alexhalliday

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Last updated: 2026-08-07