Deel Founder Hours

Deel Founder Hours is our way of giving back—offering founders 1:1 time with our exec team to tackle the hardest problems you can’t Google.

Conversations for the messy middle

Over the past six years, we’ve grown Deel into a $17.4B company with 7,000+ people. We didn’t get everything right—but we learned a lot from other founders along the way. Those conversations mattered, and we want more founders to experience them.

Deel Founder Hours is our way of giving back. It’s a chance to have honest 1:1 conversations with Deel leaders about the messy, deeply human realities of building a business.

Twice per year, our executive team sets aside time for private conversations with founders, with the goal of offering perspective and helping you move forward with more clarity.

Shuo Wang

Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer at Deel

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How the program works

We’d love to help every founder who applies. With limited time, we’ll prioritize Series A+ companies that are facing high-impact decisions where we can be most helpful.

We’ve assembled our exec team across product, ops, growth, and more

Alex Bouaziz, Co-Founder & CEO

Built Deel from zero to one of the fastest-scaling SaaS companies. Helps founders with product, fundraising, global scale, and M&A.

Shuo Wang, Co-founder & CRO

Scaled Deel beyond $1B ARR. Helps founders build repeatable growth through marketing strategy, partnerships, and revenue operations.

Dan Westgarth, COO

Runs Deel’s global operations 3,300+ org. Helps founders to scale customer success, onboarding, support and global IT operations.

Yaron Lavi , CTO

Leads Deel’s global engineering team of over 1,000 people. Helps founders build fast, scalable systems and strong technical teams.

Aaron Goldsmid, Head of product

Veteran product leader across Facebook, Amazon, and Twilio. Helps founders build scalable fintech products, growth and data.

Chris Lee, Head of US Sales

Scaled Deel from early revenue to $1B ARR. Helps founders with sales hiring, GTM execution, and scaling revenue teams.

Franck Neron-Bancel, Head of M&A

Seasoned dealmaker with 14+ acquisitions completed. Helps founders with M&A strategy, integrations, and buy vs build decisions.

Carlos Santovena, VP of Ops

Leading ops across 11 products. Helps founders deliver AI-powered customer support and strong internal operations so you can grow lean teams.

Ilana Elbaz, Head of Int. Sales

Deel’s 5th employee and first GTM hire. Helped scale sales from $0 to $1B+. Now helping founders grow globally.

Join us in January 2026

Apply for our first session featuring Alex Bouaziz, Co-Founder & CEO of Deel, along with other Deel leaders.

Deel Founder Hours