# Sasha Lascar

> Sasha Lascar is the founding AI Ops operator at Laurel, where he says he has deployed more than 100 internal agents and is building shared context across product, sales, marketing, operations and finance. His route into enterprise AI ran through Stanford mechanical engineering, product fabrication, student venture organizations, food robotics and a summer in the pastry kitchen of two-Michelin-starred Restaurant Aan de Poel.

- **Role:** Founding AI Ops at Laurel
- **Organizations:** Laurel, Stanford Product Realization Lab, General Catalyst Venture Fellows, Rough Draft Ventures, Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students, Xfund, Floodgate, Stanford Solar Car Project, TreeHacks
- **Education:** B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, with distinction, Stanford University, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, High school diploma, American School of The Hague
- **Known for:** Deployed more than 100 internal AI agents across Laurel, according to his February 2026 account., Built Laurel's founding AI Ops function initially as a team of one., Graduated from Stanford with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with distinction and later completed an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering.

## Career timeline

- **2019** — Began studying mechanical engineering at Stanford after volunteer construction and teaching work in Fiji and Bali.
- **2020-2021** — Worked as a Stanford research assistant and held roles with TreeHacks, BASES and Stanford student engineering teams.
- **2021** — Completed a mechanical engineering and product internship at food-robotics company Lab2Fab.
- **2021-2023** — Worked in program operations at Floodgate, held venture and product roles, and became co-president of Stanford BASES.
- **2023** — Earned a Stanford B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with distinction, joined the Product Realization Lab as a course assistant, and became a General Catalyst and Rough Draft Ventures fellow.
- **2024** — Interned from June through August as a pastry chef at two-Michelin-starred Restaurant Aan de Poel in the Netherlands.
- **2025** — Completed an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford and joined Laurel, where he became founding AI Ops.
- **2026** — Reported deploying more than 100 agents across Laurel and began expanding AI Ops across product operations, go-to-market, finance and a generalist track.

## Achievements

- Deployed more than 100 internal AI agents across Laurel, according to his February 2026 account.
- Built Laurel's founding AI Ops function initially as a team of one.
- Graduated from Stanford with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with distinction and later completed an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering.
- Selected as a Stanford Product Realization Lab course assistant through the lab's competitive process.
- Named to Stanford's undergraduate honors society for 2022-2023.
- Co-led Stanford BASES and helped organize its $100K startup challenge.
- Completed a pastry internship at the two-Michelin-starred Restaurant Aan de Poel and was trusted to run a shift by his third week.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Described Laurel's effort to move from isolated employee-built tools toward a shared, multiplayer AI platform where context travels between teams.
- **2026-06** — Laurel colleague Sam Nassif announced a move into AI Ops for GTM and thanked Lascar for coaching during the transition.
- **2026-02** — Announced hiring across Product Ops, GTM, Finance and a generalist AI Ops track after running the function as a team of one and deploying more than 100 agents.

## Links

- Website: https://www.sasha-lascar.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasha-lascar

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