Roman Zubenko
FounderFounder at Afternoon.co
New York, New York, United States
FoundedAfternoon.co Β· YC
About
Roman Zubenko held product and engineering roles at Gusto, where he contributed to personal finance and accounting product development, and later served as Growth PM at Notion before becoming CEO of Afternoon.co.
Roman Zubenko @romanzubenko
Today is the deadline to apply to @ycombinator. If you are on the fence - just do it. Nothing to lose, but so much to gain
Jul 27, 2026 Β· β₯ 10
Roman Zubenko @romanzubenko
the best advice for founders used to be "just charge for value; keep it simple." in ai era just charge for value means adding markup to your inferencing, because under the hood you are upselling the raw intelligence
Jul 19, 2026
Roman Zubenko @romanzubenko
We must enable millions of people to earn money with AI. It all hinges on how easy it is to build, monetize, and distribute agents. https://t.co/VPc2dDqcjI
Jul 13, 2026 Β· β₯ 4
Founder at Afternoon.coYC F24
Intro paths
Roman went through Y Combinator (Fall 2024) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was David Lieb, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Afternoon.co's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Roman can intro founders to Afternoon.co's investors below.
Afternoon.co's investors Β· 2
Co-founders at Afternoon.co
Experience
- Afternoon.coCo-Founder & CEOcurrent2024 β presentNew York, United States
- NotionProduct Manager2022 β 2023New York, New York, United States
- NeboCo-Founder & CEO2020 β 2022San Francisco, California, United States
- GustoProduct Manager - Financial Products & Mobile2017 β 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- GustoSoftware Engineer2015 β 2017San Francisco Bay Area
- LiveGitCo-Founder2013 β 2014Boston
- BasebookingCo-Founder2011 β 2013
Education
- Y Combinator
- Boston UniversityComputer Science2011 β 2015
Skills & more
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MongoDBNode.jsjQueryJavaHTMLC++HTML + CSSAJAXCSSCPhotoshopWordPressLanguages English Β· Russian
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