Joe Flaherty
InvestorDirector, Content & Community at Founder Collective
Windham, New Hampshire, United States
About
Joe Flaherty is Director of Content & Community at Founder Collective, a seed-stage venture capital firm that has backed more than twenty companies valued at $1 billion or more. Previously, he authored over 500 articles for WIRED covering design, technology, and culture, and served as the first designer at AgaMatrix, where he later led marketing and product efforts on FDA-cleared medical devices that achieved over 3 million units in sales.
Joe Flaherty @josephflaherty
HT: https://t.co/L019pG2loj
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Joe Flaherty @josephflaherty
"Human-in-the-four-dimensional-parametric-contour." https://t.co/IUwOpv9VLs

Aug 2, 2026
Joe Flaherty @josephflaherty
"Pull to Refresh" feels like something that has always existed, but it was created by a Tufts grad in his 20s. https://t.co/nw9kq4AriO https://t.co/VJLij4MkyV
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Experience
- Founder CollectiveDirector, Content & Communitycurrent2014 — presentCambridge, Massachusetts
- WiredStaff Writer2012 — 2015
- AgaMatrixSenior Manager, Strategic Marketing2010 — 2014
- AgaMatrixSenior Manager, Product Design2008 — 2010
- AgaMatrixManager, Product Design2004 — 2008
- NASADesign Fellow2004
Education
- Rhode Island School of DesignBFA, Industrial Design
- Westford Academy
Skills & more
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User-centered DesignSocial MediaUser ExperienceIndustrial DesignWeb DesignDesign for ManufacturingMarketing StrategyAdvertisingGraphic DesignMarketing CommunicationsDesign ThinkingStrategic PlanningFrom Joe's professional profile.
Same school
Also attended Rhode Island School of Design8
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Shared employers
Also worked at Wired10
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Also worked at AgaMatrix3
Also worked at NASA47
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