Harry Qi
Co-founder and CEO
Motion
Why watch
Qi built Motion so calendars and task lists negotiate with each other and people stop manually Tetrising their week.
Harry Qi is co-founder and CEO of Motion, which plans and schedules work for teams. He started it in 2019 with Omid Rooholfada and Ethan Yu, according to TechCrunch. "Omid and I were high school friends, and Ethan and I were college friends," he said.
Two Years Trading at Optiver
He graduated from Dartmouth College in math and computer science and worked at Optiver as a quantitative trader for two years, according to Frederick Daso. He quit to found a startup at 23.
Y Combinator's Winter 2020 Batch
Motion went through Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch. Qi estimates that knowledge workers spend 58% of their day coordinating work instead of doing it. Motion plans who should do what based on each person's projects and calendar.
