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Founder242Current founder
96th percentile
Investor0Not (yet!) an investor
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Co-founder & CEO of Apollo GraphQL, the leading GraphQL platform for enterprises
Credibility
this founder typical founder (50th pct)
Technical Depth · 99th percentile
- Founded the company behind apollographql/apollo-client, a flagship open-source project with 19,769 stars on GitHub.
- HN comments demonstrate personal technical depth: detailed discussion of DDP protocol design, reactive data set publishing, and distributed systems architecture for Meteor.
- Active builder with 20 public non-fork repos on GitHub.
- Most recent public push was 58 days ago to repo 'buddy-hotel', but no personal repos have 500+ stars, so this is recent activity without substantial OSS behind it.
- Identified GitHub account @gschmidt confirmed as Geoff Schmidt.
- GitHub account has been active for approximately 16 years (created 2009).
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Current co-founder and CEO of Apollo GraphQL.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)apollographql.com ranks #25,405 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)2,527 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 93%Probability of being accurate (93%)Posted 'Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework' on HN, which reached 1,386 points — a product launch that strongly resonated with the community.
- 93%Probability of being accurate (93%)Top HN post 'Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework' scored 1,386 points.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Hacker News account @geoffschmidt has 2,581 karma.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Apollo GraphQL has co-founders, including Matt DeBergalis.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Identified Hacker News account @geoffschmidt with 2,581 karma.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Founded the company behind apollographql/apollo-client, a flagship open-source project with 19,769 stars on GitHub.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Past co-founder of Meteor Software (Meteor Development Group), which was acquired by Tiny Capital.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Identified GitHub account @gschmidt confirmed as Geoff Schmidt.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Two HN posts scored 100+ points and very likely front-paged, demonstrating community reach and virality.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Fast Company named Apollo GraphQL the #2 most innovative company in enterprise software for 2023, a notable industry recognition.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)TechCrunch profiled Geoff Schmidt as a co-founder and noted he is an inventor of audio fingerprinting and one of the original authors of decentralized web TV platform Miro — a dedicated feature profile in a tier-1 outlet.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Active builder with 20 public non-fork repos on GitHub.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Apollo GraphQL raised $22M in a Series A growth round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Matrix Partners, with total capital raised across founded companies of $30M.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Meteor raised $11.2M Series A from Andreessen Horowitz and Matrix Partners, an early notable raise for a developer-tools company.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)GitHub account has been active for approximately 16 years (created 2009).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)HN comments demonstrate personal technical depth: detailed discussion of DDP protocol design, reactive data set publishing, and distributed systems architecture for Meteor.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Apollo GraphQL is ranked #912 on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing U.S. companies.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Most recent public push was 58 days ago to repo 'buddy-hotel', but no personal repos have 500+ stars, so this is recent activity without substantial OSS behind it.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Meteor Development Group was acquired by Tiny Capital (private equity).
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Apollo GraphQL is listed on Y Combinator's company directory as an active company.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Cloudflare TV featured Geoff Schmidt in a Founder Focus episode, a thought-leadership appearance on a notable platform.
What you likely need
You're a technical co-founder with deep roots in developer tooling and open-source infrastructure, having built two significant companies — Meteor and Apollo GraphQL — both backed by Andreessen Horowitz. With Apollo now at scale and a leadership transition underway, you're well-positioned to leverage your community standing and technical credibility for your next chapter. Events that connect you with other technical founders navigating the founder-to-advisor transition, or with the GraphQL/API ecosystem's next generation of builders, would be most valuable right now.
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- positioningA dinner for GraphQL and API-infrastructure founders to share lessons on open-source monetization and enterprise go-to-market strategies.
- tacticalAn Andreessen Horowitz portfolio founder roundtable on navigating the CEO-to-advisor transition while staying technically engaged.
- fundraisingA developer-tools founder happy hour with seed and Series A investors actively backing API, MCP, and AI-infrastructure startups.
- hiringA workshop for open-source founders on converting community contributors into full-time engineering hires.
- introsAn MCP and AI-API orchestration builders summit to connect with the next wave of developers building on the protocol Geoff has been championing.
- wellbeingA small dinner for serial technical founders (2+ companies) on sustaining creative energy and identity through company transitions.
- positioningA roundtable with enterprise developer-tools founders on category creation, community-led growth, and the GraphQL-to-supergraph narrative.