Armaan Ali co-founded Human Capital as a recent college graduate rather than spending years at established firms, building it around a Hollywood talent-agency approach for engineers that's backed and endorsed by CAA cofounder Michael Ovitz. He has built what the Milken Institute calls the largest dedicated talent platform in venture capital, helping portfolio companies make over 1,000 hires per year at no cost while maintaining an unusually open approach to founder outreach across all stages and sectors.