Josh Reeves
Co-founder and CEO of Gusto
Josh Reeves is the co-founder and CEO of Gusto, the San Francisco payroll, benefits and HR company that started as ZenPayroll in Y Combinator's Winter 2012 batch and now has more than 500,000 customers. Before Gusto he co-founded Unwrap, a startup bought by Context Optional in 2010, and worked as a product manager at Zazzle. He studied electrical engineering at Stanford University.
Gusto
- Payroll
- HR software
- Small business
Y Combinator
- Now
- Co-founder and CEO, Gusto3
- Company
- Gusto, Y Combinator Winter 2012, San Francisco1
- Education
- Stanford University, BS and MS in electrical engineering3
- Earlier
- Co-founder of Unwrap; early employee at Zazzle6
In their words
On a multi-decade mission at Gusto to grow the small business economy with technology and heart. Building for the long term. Proving through results that one doesn't have to choose between being competitive and kind, or being ambitious and having humility. Both are possible, and one can strengthen the other!
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Experience
- Co-founder and CEONov 2011 – now
Co-founded the company as ZenPayroll with Edward Kim and Tomer London. In the early years he handled go-to-market, customer acquisition, finance, legal and operations, while Tomer London led product and design and Edward Kim led engineering.5
- Co-founderc. 2008 – 2010
Unwrap let people build Facebook apps without writing code. He ran it for about two years before Context Optional acquired it in 2010.5
- Product managerFrom 2005
His first job after school, working on the e-commerce company's tools for designers and artists.5
Education
Bachelor's and master's degrees, Electrical Engineering5
Recognition
Award · Fortune4
Milestones
- Starts at Stanford University to study electrical engineering5
- Joins Zazzle as a product manager5
- Context Optional acquires Unwrap and its Facebook app builder, Buzzeo7
- Co-founds ZenPayroll, the company that became Gusto3
- ZenPayroll goes through Y Combinator's Winter 2012 batch1
- ZenPayroll launches5
- ZenPayroll covers payroll in all 50 US states5
- ZenPayroll renames itself Gusto and adds health benefits and workers' compensation8
- Gusto raises $200 million in a Series D at a $3.8 billion valuation4
- Gusto agrees to acquire Guideline, a retirement benefits provider9
- Gusto passes $1 billion in revenue collected over the preceding 12 months10