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We have some bittersweet news at CCF. The inimitable Ben Tossell is going full-time on Makerpad and stepping down from his role running platform at Earnest. Fortunately he’s not leaving us as I’m thrilled to announce Ben and Makerpad will be joining as the latest CCF portfolio investment ?
When Ben came on board last year, Makerpad was still an experiment spun out of his previous startup newCo. Over that time he’s done an amazing job balancing growing Makerpad with making himself available for weekly founder 1:1s and creating a vibrant community of mentors and founders and generally rolling up his sleeves to help our founders in all kinds of useful ways. But as the no-code movement kept building up steam, Ben kept cranking out the best tutorials, content and community for it anywhere. With new no-code platforms and tools launching every day, Makerpad just kept growing like a rocketship.
In his great interview on the Indie Hacker podcast, Courtland asked him frankly “why is this still a side project for you?” It was a good question (thanks Courtland!). Ben and I had frank conversations about this all along and it became clear that the opportunity was too big to not have his full-time attention (plus a team… did I mention he’s hiring?) focused on it.
So this means two things:
1/ We are hiring a new head of platform. Is that you? We are going to run a public process for the role this time so please apply here or forward this to the person you know most likely to love working with our founders and mentors, and building our community and tools.
2/ If you haven’t checked out Makerpad yet you should, it’s the best resource on the web for building tools without code.
