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Co-founder and CPO of Gusto, the $9.5B small-business payroll unicorn
Credibility
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- Gusto was valued at approximately $9.5 billion (still-private unicorn), per reporting on the company's milestone-by-milestone growth.
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current co-founder and CPO of Gusto, actively running the company since 2012.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Y Combinator Winter 2012 alum — Gusto (then ZenPayroll) went through YC W12.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Gusto was co-founded with Josh Reeves and Eddie Kim.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)gusto.com ranks #9,105 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Selected for Inc. 30 Under 30 for his work bringing modern payroll to small businesses via ZenPayroll (now Gusto).
- 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%)Verified GitHub account @tomerlondon confirmed under Tomer London's name.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)GitHub account has been active for approximately 14 years (created June 2011).
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Gusto was valued at approximately $9.5 billion (still-private unicorn), per reporting on the company's milestone-by-milestone growth.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Past founder of Vizmo.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Made 169 private/restricted GitHub contributions in the last year, indicating active private development despite a quiet public profile.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Identified as Hugging Face author @tomerl (Tomer London).
Investor score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Publicly identified as an angel investor with a portfolio of companies including Amplitude, Checkr, Figma, Mercury, and Retool.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Portfolio company Amplitude went public via IPO (AMPL on Nasdaq).
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Portfolio company Figma reached unicorn status (valued at over $10 billion).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Portfolio company Checkr reached unicorn status (valued at approximately $5 billion).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Portfolio company Mercury reached unicorn status (valued at approximately $1.6 billion).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Portfolio company Retool reached unicorn status (valued at approximately $3.65 billion).
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Has made at least 7 angel investments per Tracxn portfolio data.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Approximately 13 years of investing experience, having started angel investing around 2012.
What you likely need
As co-founder and CPO of Gusto — a $9.5B HR and payroll platform serving 300,000+ small businesses — you sit at the intersection of product leadership, unicorn-scale company building, and active angel investing. You'd benefit most from high-trust peer gatherings with other late-stage founders navigating the path to IPO, as well as curated sessions with investors and operators who've taken HR/fintech companies public. Your angel portfolio (Amplitude, Figma, Checkr, Mercury, Retool) also makes you a natural connector for early-stage founders in developer tools and fintech.
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.
- tacticalA late-stage founder roundtable with other $5B+ private company CEOs and CFOs on navigating the IPO readiness process and public-market timing.
- introsA YC W12 alumni dinner to reconnect with batchmates who've scaled to growth stage and share lessons on product-led expansion into enterprise.
- tacticalA dinner with founders and operators building SMB-focused fintech and HR platforms to exchange GTM playbooks for reaching the sub-50-employee market.
- introsAn angel investor happy hour with other operator-angels who backed developer-tools unicorns (Figma, Retool tier) to explore co-investment opportunities in the next wave.
- positioningA CPO roundtable with product leaders at $1B+ SaaS companies on building platform ecosystems and API-first product strategies at scale.
- hiringA Stanford EE/CS founder networking dinner to tap into the alumni network for recruiting senior engineering leadership as Gusto scales toward IPO.
- fundraisingAn intimate dinner with growth-equity and crossover investors (Tiger, Coatue, T. Rowe Price tier) who back pre-IPO HR and payroll platforms.