Ryan Alshak

Ryan Alshak is the CEO and co-founder of Laurel, an AI-powered time platform that automates timekeeping for lawyers, accountants, and consultants. A former corporate litigator who billed $650 an hour while manually recording every six minutes of his day, Alshak founded the company in 2018 under the name 'Time by Ping' after experiencing firsthand the absurdity of high-value professionals tracking their own time by hand. Laurel raised a $100M Series C in June 2025 at a $510M valuation, backed by IVP, GV, DST Global, Alexis Ohanian, and Kevin Weil, bringing total funding to over $149M.