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Joel Spolsky

Founder of HASH

New York, New York

Overview 

Joel Spolsky is the founder of Stack Overflow and Trello, two highly successful tech companies. Currently serving as the Chairman of Stack Overflow and Trello, his career highlights include co-founding Fog Creek Software and being a prolific blogger and author in the tech industry.

Work Experience 

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HASH

  • Co-Founder

    2019 - Current

Fog Creek Software

  • 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

  • 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.

Stack Overflow is a platform for developers and programmers to share knowledge and solve coding challenges.

Raised $153,000,000.00 from Times Bridge, Times Bridge, Spark Capital, Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures, GIC and Silver Lake Waterman.

stackoverflow.com
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Trello

  • 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.

Trello is a visual collaboration tool that provides a shared perspective on any project.

Raised $10,340,000.00 from The Syndicate.com, Spark Capital, Index Ventures and LAUNCH.

trello.com

Juno

  • Software Team Lead

    1996 - 1999

Viacom Interactive Services

  • Consultant

    1995 - 1997

Microsoft

  • Program Manager

    1991 - 1993

Education 

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

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