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Gareth W.

Founding marketer in multiple early-stage startups.

I was the founding marketer at Orbit, Glitch, Geckoboard, CommandBar, and CodeSandbox. Now I help other early-stage startups cross the chasm.

With 15 years of hands-on marketing leadership experience in fast-growing startups, I've worked with technical, B2B, and B2C2B audiences.

I'm comfortable with ambiguity, instrumenting a tech stack to track results, then using frameworks to prioritize growth experiments, test channels, and create campaigns that deliver them.

Working cross-functionally, I establish and execute on strategy. By crafting strong brands and leveraging community, I turn software into products people love and advocate for. I build flywheels that kickstart growth, and teams that take things to the next level.

I work remotely with 2-3 clients at a time on a freelance or fractional basis. The startups I work with often need help with 0 to 1 marketing. That's things like:

• Finding product-market fit for a new product or business.

• Establishing positioning and creating messaging frameworks.

• Scaling up marketing for an existing product that has some traction.

• Enabling community-led growth.

• Reviewing and optimizing onboarding flows.

• Creating content, marketing assets, and campaigns.

• Hiring a marketing leader or team members.

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Gareth W.

Experience

Jul 2022 — May 2023
Commandbar

Commandbar

Growth Lead

Cmd+k for your web app

Mar 2021 — Jul 2022
Orbit

Orbit

Director, Brand and Content

Orbit is the community experience platform that helps you build and grow your community, no matter where it happens.

Jul 2019 — Mar 2021
Codesandbox

Codesandbox

Head of Growth

Instant cloud development environments that keep you in flow. Get started saving hours of tedious work every week!

Aug 2014 — Jul 2019
Glitch

Glitch

Director of Marketing and Support

Glitch is the friendly community where everyone builds the web. Build fast, full-stack web apps in your browser for free

May 2012 — Jan 2014
Geckoboard

Geckoboard

Community Marketing Manager

See your KPIs in real-time. Improve team performance. Geckoboard is the simplest way to build real-time KPI dashboards.

Feb 2011 — May 2012
Adaptavist

Adaptavist

Product Marketing Manager

Creators of brilliant apps for the Atlassian stack and masters of complex Atlassian solutions for the enterprise.