We were able to quickly get Angel.co’s Josh Slayton to answer a few questions on his visit to Hong Kong this weekend.
Give us 5 sentences on who Josh Slayton is?
Josh Slayton: I’m CTO and employee #1 at AngelList. I’ve been programming since childhood, studied Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Kentucky, moved to SF six years ago, was an early hire at three startups before I settled at AngelList. Prior to AngelList I was lead developer at SuperRewards, a monetization platform for social games which was acquired for ~$50 million by Adknowledge in July 2009. After taking some time off to travel I met Naval through a mutual connection and joined AngelList in August 2010 (as user #671). At AngelList I lead platform development, server operations, technical infrastructure, our API, etc. AngelList aims to make the startup ecosystem more efficient—we help founders recruit, meet investors, apply to incubators, network with each other and more. We’re a Ruby/Rails shop with eight engineers on the team now.
For those who don’t know, what is AngelList?
JS: AngelList is a platform for the startup universe. We help startups fundraise, recruit, apply to incubators and much more.
