# Danny Sheridan

> Danny Sheridan is the co-founder and CEO of Fern, an open-source API documentation and SDK tooling company acquired by Postman in January 2026. A Michigan Ross graduate and former AWS product manager, he previously founded Woodside Distributors and co-founded Wolverine Crypto Trading. He also writes the newsletter Fact of the Day 1.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Fern, a Postman company
- **Organizations:** Fern, Postman, Amazon Web Services, Woodside Distributors, Wolverine Crypto Trading, Fact of the Day 1
- **Education:** Bachelor of Business Administration, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, Y Combinator
- **Known for:** Co-founded Fern and built it to 25 team members and more than 200 customers by its January 2026 acquisition by Postman., Fern raised a $9 million Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners in April 2025., Built Woodside Distributors from a high-school hobby into a business reporting $3 million annual revenue in 2017 and 11 team members.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2014** — Began selling goods online as a high-school hobby; the operation developed into Woodside Distributors.
- **2015** — Met future Fern co-founder Deep Singhvi at the University of Michigan.
- **2016** — Won first place in the University of Michigan Startup Competition.
- **2017** — Woodside Distributors recorded $3 million in annual revenue with 11 team members, according to Sheridan’s 2018 account.
- **2018** — Graduated from Michigan Ross with a BBA; his graduation profile listed Amazon product management in Seattle as his next role.
- **2022** — Co-founded Fern after working as an AWS product manager; applied to YC on November 16.
- **2023** — Participated in Y Combinator’s Winter 2023 batch and publicly launched Fern.
- **2025** — Fern raised a $9 million Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
- **2026** — Postman announced its acquisition of Fern on January 8; Sheridan published a strategy update on developer and agent experience on May 20.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Fern and built it to 25 team members and more than 200 customers by its January 2026 acquisition by Postman.
- Fern raised a $9 million Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners in April 2025.
- Built Woodside Distributors from a high-school hobby into a business reporting $3 million annual revenue in 2017 and 11 team members.
- First-place winner of the University of Michigan Startup Competition in April 2016.
- Included in Poets&Quants’ 2018 Best & Brightest undergraduate business profiles.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Published “Revamping our website,” explaining Fern’s focus on AI-agent experience, enterprise customers and demonstrations of product outcomes.
- **2026-01** — Announced Fern’s acquisition by Postman; the full team joined and Fern continued as an independent product.
- **2025-04** — Fern announced a $9 million Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners.

## Links

- Website: https://www.factoftheday1.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheridandanny/
- GitHub: https://github.com/dannysheridan

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Last updated: 2026-10-22