Ahmad Ibrahim: Building tax automation software

Ahmad Ibrahim is the co-founder and CEO of neo.tax, a startup that creates tax filing and automation software that simplifies the R&D tax credit application process. Ahmad's career path included studying economics and philosophy, working as a product manager at Intuit, and launching his own accounting firms.

We discuss how studying philosophy can be helpful in a career of a founder and lessons learned from Ibrahim’s first startup, Unleash. We also discuss how building an software product for accountant within the confines of Intuit has influenced Ibrahim’s will to pursue another startup venture in that space.

Ibrahim speaks on the predicament of accounting, shares his “lightbulb moment” that gave him the idea that he turned into neo.tax. Ibrahim also talks to us about the challenges of building tax automation software, his co-founders and their role distribution, and the future of legal and accounting services.