Brandon Leonardo
Co-founder of Instacart
Brandon Leonardo is a co-founder of Instacart, the grocery delivery and pickup company he started in July 2012 with Apoorva Mehta and Max Mullen, in Y Combinator's Summer 2012 batch. He built the early versions of the Instacart app. Before Instacart he was a senior developer at Webs and a Venture Hacker at AngelList. He studied computer science at San José State University.
Instacart
- Grocery delivery
- Y Combinator
- Software engineering
AngelList
- Now
- Co-founder, Instacart2
- Y Combinator
- Summer 2012 batch (Instacart)1
- Education
- BS, Computer Science, San José State University2
- Based in
- San Francisco Bay Area2
In their words
We're building the best way for people everywhere in the world to shop for their groceries. In order to do that, we have to solve some really challenging engineering, business development, marketing and management problems.
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Experience
- Co-founder2012 – now
Co-founded Instacart with Apoorva Mehta and Max Mullen. Y Combinator's company page says he built the early versions of the Instacart app and describes him as leading the engineering team that works on growth.1
- Venture Hacker22010 – 2011
- Advisor22010 – 2013
- Senior Developer22007 – 2010
- IT Engineer Intern22005 – 2006
Education
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science; minors in math and business administration2
Milestones
- Starts an IT engineering internship at Cisco Systems2
- Finishes a BS in computer science at San José State University2
- Joins Webs as a senior developer2
- Joins AngelList as a Venture Hacker2
- Co-founds Instacart with Apoorva Mehta and Max Mullen2
- Instacart goes through Y Combinator's Summer 2012 batch1
- Instacart completes its IPO; its stock lists on the Nasdaq Global Select Market as CART4