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Joel Spolsky

Founder of Stack Overflow, Trello, HASH, and Fog Creek Software (now Glitch). Blogger and author.

New York, New York

Investor
VC

Invests in

Stages:

Seed
Pre-seed

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Skills

Barista Training

Education

Lists including Joel

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Ex-Microsoft employees who invest

302 people

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Based in NYC

2600 people

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All Seed Investors

19695 people

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All Pre-Seed Investors

7974 people

Investments

HASH

Seed

Total Funding: $3M

The Labz

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $1.2M

ProductionPro

Convertible Note

Total Funding: $2M

Lore

Series A

Total Funding: $13M

Work Experience

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HASH

2019

  • Co-Founder

    2019

Fog Creek Software

2000 - 2022

  • Co-Founder

    2000 - 2022

    Helping the world's best developers make better software. Fog Creek is famous for FogBugz, Kiln, Copilot, and Glitch, and two huge spinoffs: Trello and Stack Overflow.

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Stack Overflow

2008 - 2021

  • Chairman

    2019 - 2021

  • CEO and Co-founder

    2008 - 2019

    Stack Overflow helps the world's developers learn, share their knowledge, and level up. I cofounded Stack Overflow in 2008 with Jeff Atwood and have been CEO since 2010.

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Trello

2014 - 2017

  • Chairman and Co-founder

    2014 - 2017

    Invented Trello (while at Fog Creek Software), spun it off into a separate company, where I was the Chairman of the Board, and eventually sold that company to Atlassian in 2017 for $425,000,000.

Juno

1996 - 1999

  • Software Team Lead

    1996 - 1999

Viacom Interactive Services

1995 - 1997

  • Consultant

    1995 - 1997

Microsoft

1991 - 1993

  • Program Manager

    1991 - 1993