About
Pouyan Salehi is currently CEO and cofounder of Scratchpad. He previously founded and led PersistIQ as CEO and cofounder, which was part of Y Combinator's S14 cohort.
Pouyan Salehi @psalehi
@OpenAI @AnthropicAI 5/ That’s why we’re excited to introduce NexusGTM. We help revenue teams become AI-native in 4 weeks. Built for CEOs, CROs, and sales leaders who want AI embedded into how revenue work actually happens. https://t.co/q7TIzG0BUj
May 18, 2026
Pouyan Salehi @psalehi
@OpenAI @AnthropicAI 4/ For sales, that means choosing the right use cases, shaping company data and workflows into context AI can reason over, evaluating quality, building feedback loops, and redesigning how revenue work gets done around AI.
May 18, 2026
Pouyan Salehi @psalehi
3/ The market is moving this way. @OpenAI launched a Deployment Company. @AnthropicAI announced a new enterprise AI services company. The signal is clear: the next frontier is not access to models. It’s turning AI into operating change.
May 18, 2026
Founder/CEO at PersistIQYC S14
Intro paths
Pouyan went through Y Combinator (Summer 2014) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
In turn, Pouyan can intro founders to PersistIQ's investors below.
PersistIQ's investors · 4
Co-founders at PersistIQ
