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About
Michael Hirn is a serial SaaS founder with 17 years of professional software development experience, having scaled a SaaS business to $150K ARR at gross margins above 90% while in high school. He later ran operations at Jigsaw VC, a $110M fund where he was a founding team member, and built the internal tool that became the basis for Toolkit.
Cofounder at Toolkit
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Phil PfefferFounding CEO
Experience
- ToolkitCo-Founder, CTOcurrent2024 — present
- Jigsaw VCPrincipal, Tech2021 — 2023
- Jigsaw VCProduct Lead2020 — 2021
- Jigsaw VCSenior Software Engineer2019 — 2020London Area, United Kingdom
- VariousConsultant / Product Lead / Founder2016 — 2018
- Autumn AICEO, Founder2015 — 2016Berlin und Umgebung, Deutschland
- RePricingCTO, Co-Founder2012 — 2014München und Umgebung, Deutschland
Skills & more
Artificial Intelligence9Machine Learning8JavaScript4Ruby1RScala1Management1Leadership2Business Development4E-Commerce3Unternehmensstrategie3Unternehmertum3
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Data AnalysisCReinforcement LearningNeural NetsSoftwareentwicklungDistributed SystemsNode.jsRustStart-upsSoftware DevelopmentLanguages Englisch · German
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- Who is Michael Hirn?
- Michael Hirn is a serial SaaS founder with 17 years of professional software development experience, having scaled a SaaS business to $150K ARR at gross margins above 90% while in high school. He later ran operations at Jigsaw VC, a $110M fund where he was a founding team member, and built the internal tool that became the basis for Toolkit.
- Where does Michael Hirn work?
- Michael Hirn is Cofounder of Toolkit.
- What companies did Michael Hirn found?
- Michael Hirn founded Toolkit.
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