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Founder125Past founder
91st percentile
Investor0Not (yet!) an investor
Combined
2x-exited YC founder who sold CoreOS to Red Hat for $250M
Credibility
this founder typical founder (50th pct)
GTM / Distribution · 89th percentile
- coreos.com ranks #32,641 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- Hacker News account @polvi has 2,394 karma.
- Active poster on Hacker News with 64 story posts.
- Active on Hacker News as @polvi with 2,394 karma.
- Posted 'Show HN: CoreOS, a Linux distro for containers' on Hacker News with 417 points.
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- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Y Combinator S13 alum (CoreOS) and W09 alum (Cloudkick).
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)CoreOS was acquired by Red Hat for $250M.
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Active on Hacker News as @polvi with 2,394 karma.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)coreos.com ranks #32,641 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current founder and CEO of CoreOS, Inc.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Hacker News account @polvi has 2,394 karma.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past founder of Cloudkick, a cloud server monitoring company acquired by Rackspace.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)GitHub account @polvi confirmed as Alex Polvi's account.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)GitHub account @polvi is over 5 years old (created January 2009, ~17 years).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Raised $48M total across CoreOS and Cloudkick per grounded sources.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Currently shipping public code (most recent push 56 days ago, repo 'gratos').
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)CoreOS and Cloudkick both had co-founders.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Active builder with 75 public non-fork repos on GitHub.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Active poster on Hacker News with 64 story posts.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Posted 'Show HN: CoreOS, a Linux distro for containers' on Hacker News with 417 points.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Cloudkick was acquired by Rackspace (acquisition price undisclosed, floored to minimum).
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of Festival events that activate your YC alumni network and cloud-native credibility to accelerate gratos — whether that's warm intros to seed investors who already know your track record, or technical founder dinners where your CoreOS/etcd legacy opens doors instantly. Events that put you in the room with infrastructure-focused angels, OSS developer communities, and YC partners would let you convert your reputation into real traction for your current build.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA YC W09/S13 alumni founder dinner for warm intros to current YC partners and batch founders who could become gratos's earliest design partners or co-founders
- fundraisingA seed fundraising roundtable for repeat YC founders with prior infrastructure exits, connecting you with Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Sequoia scouts already familiar with your CoreOS track record
- tacticalAn HN founder dinner for technical OSS builders preparing Show HN launches, where you can pressure-test the gratos positioning and hook with other founders who've driven 400+ point posts
- positioningA cloud-native ecosystem founders dinner with CoreOS, Docker, and Kubernetes-era infrastructure founders to explicitly reclaim your positioning as a co-creator of the container-native stack
- introsAn infrastructure and OSS-focused angel syndicate happy hour with former founders-turned-investors from the cloud-native era, to help you formalize your angel investing activity alongside your CoreOS exit proceeds
- tacticalA roundtable for OSS security and authentication founders targeting the self-hosted developer community, to map out a coordinated gratos distribution push across r/selfhosted, HN, and dev.to
- fundraisingA dinner for serial YC founders on their third venture, focused on how to frame an early-stage raise when you have two prior exits and strong institutional relationships but a pre-traction product
- positioningAn office hours session for OSS infrastructure founders with strong HN and GitHub credibility but early commercial traction, workshopping how to convert developer adoption of tools like gratos into paying enterprise customers