Edward Kim
Co-founder and Head of Engineering at Gusto
Edward Kim, also called Eddie, is a co-founder of Gusto, the San Francisco payroll, benefits and HR company that started as ZenPayroll in Y Combinator's Winter 2012 batch. He leads Gusto's engineering team; coverage in 2024 and 2025 also gives his title as CTO. Before Gusto he founded Picwing (YC Summer 2008), a photo-sharing startup for families, and was a senior project engineer at Volkswagen's Electronics Research Lab.
Gusto
- Payroll and HR software
- Y Combinator
- Engineering leadership
- Now
- Co-founder and Head of Engineering, Gusto2
- Company
- Gusto (YC W12), San Francisco1
- Earlier
- Founder and CEO, Picwing (YC S08)3
- Education
- Stanford, B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering4
Experience
- Co-founder and Head of Engineeringnow
His Y Combinator profile describes the job as empowering Gusto's engineering team.2
- Co-founder and CTOMay 2024
The title Fortune used for him in May 2024.5
- Co-founder and Head of TechnologyMar 2024
The title in a March 2024 profile, which says he grew the engineering team to hundreds of people.4
- Founder and CEO2008
Photo sharing for families, in Y Combinator's Summer 2008 batch: printed photos mailed every two weeks and Linux-based digital photo frames. The company is now inactive.3
- Senior project engineerBefore Gusto
Led research and development on cloud-based navigation and speech recognition systems for Volkswagen and Audi.6
- Lab member as a student2Stanford years
Education
Electrical Engineering4
Milestones
- Picwing joins Y Combinator's Summer 2008 batch, with Kim as founder and CEO3
- Co-founds ZenPayroll, later Gusto, with Josh Reeves and Tomer London1
- ZenPayroll goes through Y Combinator's Winter 2012 batch1
- ZenPayroll launches its cloud payroll service and announces a $6.1 million first round7
- ZenPayroll renames itself Gusto and adds health insurance and workers' compensation8
- Explains how Gusto rates engineering performance in a Plato engineering leadership guide4
- Fortune reports Gusto passed $500 million in revenue in fiscal 2023 and is cash flow positive5
- Guest on episode 88 of the From Start-Up to Grown-Up podcast, on moving from writing code to leading engineers9