Product & Engineering Leader
I’m a product person, a programmer, and an engineering leader. I ❤️ building. I’m interested in startups, entrepreneurship, B2B SaaS, and AI. These days I love building with agents, building for agents, and building agents.
I’m a founding team member and VP of Product & Engineering at Close, where I got to write the first lines of code and lead Product & Engineering for 14+ years. We’ve grown to have an awesome 125+ person all-remote team and have bootstrapped our way to $50M+ ARR with thousands of happy customers. We’re hiring!
Previously I spent two years leading Product/Engineering at Quizlet, building study tools that help millions of students learn. Before that, I interned at Yahoo! and Google, and did a lot of freelance web design/development while studying at the University of Florida.
I spent 7 years in Silicon Valley and I’m now back in Florida, where I’ve spent years building and scaling remote teams. Outside of work, I’m a husband and dad of three who likes 3D printing, smart home, and LEGOs with the kids.
In recent years I’ve been doing less blogging here, but writing more on Twitter.
When I have a bit more to say, I’ve found Typefully as a really nice writing tool. They also have a “Profile” view that rolls up tweet threads into blog post form. My latest posts are here:
https://typefully.com/philfreo
Enjoy!
I took my first sabbatical this year, after Close started (generously) offering fully paid 4-week sabbaticals for all employees after 5 years. Recently I spoke with our CEO…
I built a micro-SaaS as my pandemic side project: TeamHome.app – An internal company directory designed for remote teams. Try it out and let me know what you think. Read on for…
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