Alex Lines is a venture capital investor at Notation Capital who spent about 10 years as an engineer and early employee at Betaworks building products in New York, giving him hands-on experience with distributed systems and scalability before becoming an investor. He co-created and hosts the Origins podcast, which focuses on Limited Partners and venture fund formation, and actively seeks companies that can scale with small technical teams while achieving exceptionally high user-to-engineer ratios. Alex Lines is a venture capital investor at Notation Capital who spent about 10 years as an engineer and early employee at Betaworks building products in New York, giving him hands-on experience with distributed systems and scalability before becoming an investor. He co-created and hosts the Origins podcast, which focuses on Limited Partners and venture fund formation, and actively seeks companies that can scale with small technical teams while achieving exceptionally high user-to-engineer ratios.