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David Kobrosky
Founder and CEO at Intros AI
David Kobrosky is the Founder and CEO of Intros AI, a platform focused on creating personalized introductions between members of online communities. Intros AI is designed to automate community member introductions across various platforms like email, text, Discord, Telegram, and Slack. The company, based in New York City, was founded by Kobrosky and Robert Levy in November 2020 and has raised $1.3 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Neo.14
Before founding Intros AI, Kobrosky gained experience in several roles, including as a software engineer at 1Password, a product management intern at DataRobot, and a technical product manager at VaynerMedia. He also co-founded Blockchain at Michigan and served as a venture partner at Contrary.13 Kobrosky studied computer science and business administration at the University of Michigan and has been involved in various fellowships and leadership roles, such as being a Kairos fellow and a global teen leader for the We Are Family Foundation.3
Kobrosky is passionate about human connections and community building, which is reflected in his work at Intros AI and his personal endeavors, such as fundraising to support cancer survivors while undergoing his own treatment.2 He is based in Brooklyn, New York.15
Highlights
Cancer Free!! Phew. After 12 rounds of chemo, I’m officially in the clear.
I can’t express how grateful I am for everyone who showed up — whether it was family joining me during treatments or a thoughtful text from an old friend. Thank you.
Most of all, I’m excited to live.
If that weren’t incredible enough, we also managed to fundraise enough to cover someone else’s cancer treatment. A huge thank you to everyone who donated, and to MSK and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society for making this happen.
Next steps for me: I’ll have scans every three months for the next two years, and then every six months for the following three years. I’m confident the cancer won’t come back, but if it does, we’ll beat it again.
Life is good. Onwards!
The biggest thing holding back community products today is how heavy weight they are.
Slack, Discord, Circle, etc. all require you to make an account, download an app, sign in, etc. simply to interact with others. This leads to a feeling of being “siloed”.
The thing is, communities we’re a part of are far more fluid than this. We follow newsletters, connect in alumni networks, and check out events. These don’t belong in a walled off space.
We should be able to interact with the people in the communities we’re apart of without leaving the channels we use every day. I’m talking about email, dms, and text messages.
Light weight community tools that facilitate these interactions, in spaces we already spend time, are the next wave of community products.
This is one of the main reasons we built @intros_ai to be platformless. It makes it so much more seamless to facilitate interactions when you don’t need to create new habits.
