Team

The people building type.com

The cofounders previously founded Halp, a Slack-based helpdesk used by Slack, OpenAI, Pinterest, and DoorDash. Halp was acquired by Atlassian in 2020, and the core technology now powers chat-based tickets for millions of conversations in Jira.

Fletcher Richman

Former Co-founder & CEO of Halp. Led product for Confluence (~$700M ARR), launching Atlassian's AI-powered editor to 10M users.

🏄 Avid surfer, so he knows how to ride a wave.

Komran Rashidov

Former Co-founder & CTO of Halp. Built the first AI agent for IT at Atlassian.

🩰 His girlfriend is a ballerina, so he can dance with the best.

Alex Campbell

Built ML systems to detect harmful content for billions of users at Twitter and Facebook. Has been shipping AI/ML-powered products his whole career.

👨‍🍳 Brief stint as a chef, so he has great taste.

More of the team

A small team with a wide range

We’re a team of eight, including talent from Airbnb, Stripe, and Twitter in the initial founding team.

Matt Gadda

Founding engineer and former senior staff engineer at Airbnb and Twitter.

Chris Davis

Founding designer who previously led product design at Stripe and Atlassian.

Stephen Thoma

Founding engineer who previously led software at unspun and built financial-data products at Clearwater Analytics.

Sam Claassen

Founding Growth Lead who previously led growth at Reflect and SafetyWing.

Andrea Okun

University of Chicago history and philosophy grad who applied AI at a biotech startup reimagining infant formula and at a law firm before joining type.com as its first SDR.