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YC-backed co-founder and CEO of Gusto, a $9.5B payroll and HR unicorn
Credibility
Technical Depth · 92th percentile
- Founded the company behind gusto/apollo-federation-ruby, a flagship open-source project with 225 stars on GitHub.
- GitHub account @joshuareeves identified and confirmed as Joshua Reeves.
- GitHub account has been active for approximately 10 years (created 2015).
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current co-founder and CEO of Gusto, actively leading the company since 2011.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Gusto is a Y Combinator Winter 2012 alumnus.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)gusto.com ranks #9,105 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)10,442 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Gusto was co-founded with co-founders, confirmed by multiple sources.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Forbes 30 Under 30 recognition in 2012 for entrepreneurial achievement.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Founded the company behind gusto/apollo-federation-ruby, a flagship open-source project with 225 stars on GitHub.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Gusto has raised $746.2M in total funding across 18 rounds.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Identified Hacker News account @joshuareeves with 47 karma.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)GitHub account @joshuareeves identified and confirmed as Joshua Reeves.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)GitHub account has been active for approximately 10 years (created 2015).
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Gusto is a unicorn-valued private company with $746.2M raised and widely reported valuations exceeding $1B (most recently valued at approximately $9.5B in 2021).
Investor score
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Publicly identified as an angel investor with a focus on pre-seed and seed-stage investments.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Active angel investor backing startups in analytics, e-commerce, enterprise, and SaaS sectors with check sizes of $5,000–$50,000.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Has been investing since approximately 2011, representing approximately 14 years of investing experience.
What you likely need
As the co-founder and CEO of Gusto — a unicorn-valued payroll and HR platform serving small businesses — you're operating at the intersection of fintech, HR tech, and SMB software at scale. Events that connect you with other growth-stage founders navigating the path from unicorn to IPO, as well as angel investing networks where you can deploy capital alongside fellow operator-angels, would be most valuable right now.
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.
- introsA YC W12 founder reunion dinner to reconnect with batchmates who've scaled to growth stage and share lessons on the unicorn-to-IPO journey.
- tacticalA roundtable for unicorn-stage CEOs navigating the decision between late-stage private growth and IPO readiness in the current market.
- positioningA dinner for founders building fintech and HR-tech products for small businesses to exchange distribution and retention playbooks.
- introsAn operator-angel happy hour for seed-stage investors writing $5k–$50k checks to co-invest in pre-seed SaaS and fintech deals.
- hiringA Stanford Engineering alumni founder dinner to build warm relationships with technical co-founders and early engineering hires.
- hiringA workshop for growth-stage founders on scaling people operations and culture from 1,000 to 5,000 employees without losing mission alignment.
- fundraisingOffice hours with late-stage investors and bankers on structuring a Series F or pre-IPO round for a profitable HR-tech unicorn.