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Sasha Lascar Is Teaching a Company to Remember
A Stanford mechanical engineer went from mills, molds and a Michelin pastry station to building more than 100 AI agents at Laurel. His real project is larger: making what one team learns useful to every other team.
Sun Lee Wants to Make Every Working Minute Mean More
The designer behind SurveyMonkey’s curiosity era has spent a career giving difficult software a human voice. At Laurel, she is taking on the slipperiest brief yet: explain what our time is really worth.
Kourosh Zamani
Kourosh Zamani is the Co-Founder of Laurel, the AI-native time platform automating timesheet creation for professional services firms. Starting as Ping Inc. in 2016 alongside co-founder Ryan Alshak - a fraternity brother from UC Berkeley - Kourosh shepherded the company from bootstrapped startup through five funding rounds to a $100M Series C in June 2025, with investors including IVP, Google Ventures, Alexis Ohanian, and Kevin Weil (CPO at OpenAI). Before building Laurel, he ran VP of Business Development at Bailard Inc. and founded the Young Professionals of San Francisco, a non-profit that grew to 8,000+ members. His career arc from investment management to COO to Head of Sales to Strategic Partnerships lead mirrors the evolution of Laurel itself: from scrappy time-tracking app to a platform processing over $5B in gross market value for 100+ enterprise clients.