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Owner has raised $240M, reached a $2.3B valuation, and crossed $100M ARR.
Goldman Sachs Alternatives led the round, joined by Meritech, Redpoint, Headline, & Jack Altman.
The world is racing to build AI to replace people’s jobs. Owner is building AI to do the opposite:
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To most people, this seemed truly impossible back in the day
@shopify is still underrated
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One of the best investments I ever made. I hope one day you can invest.
Try @owner here:
Grader.Owner.com
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Introducing Grader: the world's first AI CMO for restaurants.
It’s helped us drive over $1 BILLION in sales for our customers.
Grader outperforms human marketing teams. See how:
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Nothing like epic investor updates on 1/1/26. First up is @owner:
👩🍳 One of the best companies I've ever invested in is @owner — AI for restaurants. A great example of AI Vertical B2B.
They dramatically accelerated in 2025:
• Growing almost ~3x YoY, accelerating towards $100M ARR.
• 83% of growth comes from their AI products.
• Truly S-tier team and jaw-dropping velocity.
The key is massive ROI from AI. Massive & nearly instant.
Great work on a great 2025, Team @Owner @AdamGuild @DeanBloembergen. Proud to have led the seed round at @SaaStrfund.
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A huge congrats to team @owner for another record-setting month of Double Double growth!
Double digit growth at double digit millions in ARR! #joinawinner
What’s the secret? In the Age of AI, you have to do >everything< for the customer. Everything. Effortlessly, and with near instant and true ROI.
Own it. Don’t ask them to.
What do companies expect from their senior content hires?
Out of curiosity, I ran a quick observational study that may reveal part of the answer.
TLDR: Many senior content roles require owning at least one other related craft/discipline:
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- But, it seems "Head of SEO" responsibilities are often reserved for a separate hire.
- Roles with Social Media or Communications in the job title were much less likely to mention SEO.
Writing is an invitation for the world to look inside your head and comment on what they find.
That's why it's so hard to press "Publish."
If people genuinely love your product, then the best thing you can do for your "brand" is to get more people to use your product.
Especially in the early days.
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It's really disappointing when someone rejects your "Friendship Upgrade" 😞 xitter.cf/Brentertainer/status/1…
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The past few months have been a blur. Before this gets lost in the shuffle, I wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the work we've shipped this year. Couldn't be prouder to work with a group of such uniquely talented people.
Quick thread. 👇
(cont'd) Axel Kinnear, Rose Wong, Cecilia Castelli, Till Lauer, Hanna Barczyk, Borja Bonaque, and Amanda Berglund
While Shopify is heavily invested in content marketing, most people I talk to assume our core editorial team is 15+ people. Not quite.
The team: @ShuangEsther, @roxanneisntvoid, @braveenk, @nicecobra, @AdamRogersUK, and @leilacourey 🌟