Tim DraperFounder and Managing Partne, Draper Associate · I back the ideas that look crazy first

Would you risk everything for an idea that could save thousands of farmers? 🐔

28 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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Ali left his job to start Poullder, a company using IoT and AI to help poultry farmers cut costs by thousands of dollars. He spent time on farms learning what farmers actually needed, facing intense pressure to abandon the idea. His bet: that technology could solve real problems for people struggling to survive in agriculture.

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All of a sudden, I left my job and I started to work on my ideas. Most of the people said he's a crazy guy. I'm Ali, and I'm the CEO and founder of Poullder. So we are helping the poultry farmers to save thousands of dollars by using the IoT, big data, and artificial intelligence. Though this is not easy, this is very challenging, but this is possible. This is not impossible. I have very few chances just because I cannot do a lot of mistakes. Just because I'm already with the kids, I have the family, I have to feed my family, and I left my job. So pressure from the family, pressure from the society, it was very high. I worked a lot on the farms. I had a lot of meetings with the poultry farmers. I realized I understand their problems. I tried to figure out how to solve their problems.