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Last discussed Oct 14, 2026

A startup providing training data services for AI companies, founded by Ali, seeded by This Week in Startups when it was a ~$12M company.

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"We invested in Micro1 and we did their seed round back when they had a different business model, was recruiting developers, but they just today announced they hit a billion dollars in annualized revenue."

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"We have an investment in a company called Micro1, which makes proprietary data sets for the large language models."

"My friend Ali at Micro One — literally it's my next Uber here in terms of we were able to invest in it at a $12 million valuation. He hits hundreds..."

Greg Isenberg
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vs: Mentioned alongside Mercor

"There's all these companies like Mercor, Micro1 who are selling data to the big labs and are getting insane valuations, billions of dollars, hundreds of millions of ARR."

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Jason Calacanis
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Used for: AI training data sets Praised: Founder made principled decision not to sell data to China vs: Compared to Scale AI and Turing which did sell to Chinese labs

"I have investments in a couple of these companies, including Micro One. The founder of Micro One didn't participate in selling to China. He made that decision."

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Sean Frank
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"They have an aggressive affiliate program... If you're willing to make an intro to a brand, they'll give you 50 grand."

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