
He built Aurelius to help people make better product decisions. The difficult part was letting their decisions change his own.
Before Condens, Alexander Knoll interviewed more than 160 UX researchers. His career has kept returning to the same question: what happens when people take the time to understand one another?
Bring all your customer knowledge together, analyze it fast, and surface evidence-backed insights your team and AI agents can both act on.
Oren Friedman is the co-founder and CEO of Rally, a New York-based user research CRM that pulls participant recruiting, scheduling, incentives and consent tracking out of spreadsheets and into one workflow. A Nashville native and Vanderbilt graduate, he built the product with CTO Alec Robins after years selling enterprise research tools at Remesh and AlphaSights. Rally went through Y Combinator's W22 batch, closed an $11M Series A led by Canapi Ventures in June 2025, and counts Adobe, Sonos, MongoDB, GitLab, BILL and Monzo among its customers.