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21st percentile
Co-founder of Octane (acquired by Stripe), now CPO at DbCom
Credibility
GTM / Distribution · 23th percentile
- Currently CPO at DbCom Inc., and previously worked at Stripe, which ranks highly on the Majestic Million.
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past co-founder of Octane, a usage-based billing software startup.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Octane raised $2M per SEC Form D filing and confirmed by TechCrunch reporting.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Octane was co-founded with teammates Akash Khanolkar met at Carnegie Mellon University.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Octane was acquired by Stripe (undisclosed price), confirmed by LinkedIn noting 'We've joined Stripe!'.
- 35%Probability of being accurate (35%)Currently CPO at DbCom Inc., and previously worked at Stripe, which ranks highly on the Majestic Million.
What you likely need
You're at a pivotal inflection point as a post-exit founder with deep usage-based billing expertise, and the right rooms can accelerate whether you go the operator-investor route or found again. Events that put you in front of fintech infrastructure founders, CMU alumni, and developer-tooling builders will sharpen your next move fastest. Your Stripe acquisition story is your sharpest credential — use Festival gatherings to road-test your narrative and build the public presence that matches what you've actually built.
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.
- positioningA founder post-mortem dinner for operators who have exited to Stripe, Plaid, or similar fintech acqui-hires to workshop your Octane retrospective narrative before you publish it publicly
- introsA roundtable for angel investors with operator expertise in usage-based billing and fintech infrastructure — think Basis Set Ventures, Abstraction Capital, and Script Capital LPs — to make your first 1-2 checks with genuine domain edge
- hiringA Carnegie Mellon alumni founder mixer for CMU engineers and PMs who have gone on to start or join early-stage dev-tools or infrastructure companies, mirroring the exact co-founder sourcing dynamic that produced Octane
- positioningA Hacker News top-poster dinner for dev-tools and billing infrastructure builders to pressure-test your usage-based metering learnings before you publish on HN and establish your public technical voice
- tacticalA Product Hunt launch prep workshop for technical founders shipping side projects or open-source billing and cloud infrastructure tools, so you can rebuild your public builder presence with a real launch plan
- introsA happy hour for founders who have been acquired by Stripe, Twilio, or similar fintech platforms and are now operating as angels or CPOs, to map your path from operator back to founder or into a formal investing role
- fundraisingA seed fundraising dinner with Basis Set Ventures, Abstraction Capital, and Script Capital partners to re-warm those relationships now so your next company's raise starts from a standing start rather than cold outreach