Samiur Rahman

Co-founder and CEO of Heyday, an AI-powered research assistant

Issue #168 July 2, 2022

About

Samiur Rahman is the cofounder and CEO of Heyday, an AI-powered research assistant that helps you retain more of what you learn by resurfacing content you forgot about.

I’m excited thrilled to announce that Heyday has raised a $6.5M Seed led by Kevin Thau at Spark Capital. My co-founder, Sam DeBrule, shared our pitch deck on Twitter earlier this week. Here’s my workspace while I was raising our round:

Photos

6 images

Gear

10 items

Computer Macbook Pro 16” 64GB Ram (2019)

Laptop Stand Amazon Basics Laptop Stand (discontinued)

Tablet Remarkable 2 Buy

Accessories Panasonic Lumix GX85 Camera + Joby GorillaPod + Elgato CamLink + Dummy Battery Power adapter Buy

Chair Brancaster Genuine Leather Conference Chair (bought from Craigslist fire sale) Buy

Accessories Philz Philtered Soul, Medium Roast Buy

Accessories Klean Kanteen water bottle Buy

Headphones Sony WH-1000XM4 Buy

Accessories Springbank 12 Year (for after 8 calls in a row) Buy

Camera Dominion + Dominion Prosperity (used as Camera stand) Buy

The census

Only 3% of the desks we’ve published have Samiur’s Sony WH-1000XM4.

Ranked across all 516 setups that list their gear.

MacBook Pro 64%

Sony WH-1000XM4 3%

See top 50 gear items ›

Software

5 apps

Heyday (research)

Mixmax (templated email)

Zoom (video pitches)

Keynote (deck)

Loom (product demo)

Interview

3 questions

› What do you look forward to most each day? Least?

Most: Talking through crazy new ideas of how we can automate more things for peopleLeast: Doing the million little mundane things that’s necessary to run a business

› How do you spark creativity?

Going for long walks, particularly with Sam (my cofounder). Let the conversation flow, instead of having an agenda.

› What excites you most about Heyday?

I hate doing mundane things, and I hate the feeling of “forgetting something”. Heyday will make that better for me and for millions of others! LFG!