The Amplify Build Team

We’ve assembled a group of the best leaders in sales, recruiting, growth, and marketing with decades of experience at technical companies. They work closely alongside Amplify companies in structured, goal-oriented engagements.

Tim Babcock
Building and scaling your go-to-market organization, hiring for critical roles, and finding the right sales motion for your customer.
GTM & Sales
“Tim has been instrumental in shaping our go-to-market motion and strategy. He’s helped us accelerate growth in some areas while also helping us avoid potential missteps.”
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Andrew McNealy
Head of Sales at Hex
“Tim came in and identified concrete gaps in our sales motion that immediately accelerated our growth. There’s really nothing more helpful than that.”
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Noga Leviner
CEO at Picnic Health
Justin Gage
Storytelling, messaging and positioning, content strategy, website, documentation and technical writing.
Growth & Marketing
"It would be hard to overstate how impactful Justin has been for WarpStream. He helped us cut through the noise and find our company’s voice in a crowded market. From initial launch, to marketing copy, to dealing with PR emergencies, and building our brand, Justin was instrumental in almost every aspect of our marketing success. If you’re trying to market and position a highly technical or developer focused product, you couldn’t ask for a better partner than Justin."
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Richie Artoul
CEO at Warpstream
“Justin was instrumental in helping us with our launch: the new website structure and copy, our blog post, and even the press release have his fingerprints on them. It was really helpful having someone on board who can write, but understands developers too.”
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Alana Marzoev
CEO at Readyset
Natasha Katoni
Hiring and retaining your team, building a diagnosable recruiting system, defining your talent brand, and creating a winning compensation pitch.
Talent & Recruiting
"Natasha has been directly responsible for some of our best hires. In addition to consistently connecting us with the right people in her network, she provides valuable advice and guides us in the right direction for more challenging searches."
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Josh Curl
CTO at Hightouch
"Natasha is an expert in executing world-class people operations at every level of a startup. She taught me the tools to recruit the founding team, navigate delicate personnel issues, manage search firms, and build a stellar executive team. Even as we enter the growth phase of Eppo, Natasha remains my go-to resource for everything related to building a high-performing team."
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Chetan Sharma
CEO at Eppo
Joshua Goldenberg
Product, design and brand guidance, design systems, hiring, performance and organizational development, and operationalizing design.
Design & Product
“As our company then rapidly grew, Joshua was (and remains) one of my most trusted mentors in scaling a design culture and collaboration that drives creativity, deep user empathy, and first principles thinking. I’m convinced he’s among the best in the world at what he does.”
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Ray Zhou
CEO at Affinity
“Joshua is a lot more than a Design advisor, but that's his ace. He's a trusted and grounding voice as we are working through the trenches of the earliest builds.”
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Patrick Despres-Gallagher
CEO at Stage
Mark LaRosa
Winning early customers, technical strategy and outbound messaging, sequencing and prioritization for roadmap and features.
GTM & Sales
“Mark helped our company scale before we had a full executive team. His mentorship, feedback, and engagement during our CRO search was indispensable.”
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Grant Miller
CEO at Replicated
“Mark is an invaluable resource and an extension of our team. He’s in our Slack, I always text him and call him weekly. He knows how people buy technical products and companies' challenges as they go through it for the first time.”
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Barry McCardel
CEO at Hex
Nate Remy
Mapping competitive talent markets, identifying and engaging talent, best practices and creative methods for top of funnel, and talent sourcing infrastructure.
Talent & Sourcing
"Hiring top talent is arguably the most critical thing you can do as a startup. Nate and Amplify have been exceptional partners, helping us define our needs, refine job specs, and connect us with top-tier candidates."
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Jennifer Smith
CEO at Scribe
"Nate is the best recruiter I've ever worked with—authentic, knowledgeable, and results-driven. He has a structured process, and an incredible network, and helps position your company and role to attract top-tier candidates."
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Mahir Lupinacci
COO at System Initiative
the build team
early-stage focus
domain expertise
measurable impact
HANDS-ON

Early-stage wanted.

Amplify's Build Team specializes in early stage. We help you win your first customers, hire your initial team, set up your website, and everything else early-stage technical teams work on. Everyone on the Build Team has built their careers on multiple early-stage bets – many won, and some lost – and brings that experience to their work with you.

Technical founder specific.
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Amplify is the first investor for technical founders. These kinds of companies have a unique set of shared problems – from recruiting early engineers to developing high quality technical content – and that’s what our Build Team specializes in.

A unique engagement model.
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We embed ourselves in your company and work with you, from leading sales calls to copywriting and outbound sourcing. When you work with Amplify, you get a set of teammates to help close your first customers, recruit your team, and build out your first few campaigns. This is more than strategic advisory; this is an extension of your team.

The community for
technical founders.

Technical founders face a unique set of challenges.
Connect with other founders who are figuring it out too.

Events

Build relationships with other founders from 100+ Amplify companies. We run tons of events to make sure you meet them. Yearly highlights include our Founder Retreat, Ski Trip, dozens of dinners, and much more.

workshops

We organize workshops run by people who have done it before, focused on solving a specific problem to technical teams. Think hiring your first technical marketer, when to think about engineering management, and how to instrument open source products for analytics.

#COMMUNITY

The #amplify-founders channel is where you can ask questions, share interesting finds, and meet 150+ engaged technical founders figuring it out alongside you.