# Nick Freeman

> Nick Freeman is the co-founder, co-CEO and CTO of Marco Experiences, a San Francisco and New York company that helps companies plan and book team offsites, retreats and group experiences. Before Marco he was one of the founding backend engineers on Instagram Stories, where he helped scale the product from launch to 500 million daily users, and he shipped Cortana for Xbox One at Microsoft. A UC Berkeley computer science and economics graduate, he left Brex in 2020 to build Marco with Suman Siva on the bet that, done thoughtfully, technology can build community. Marco now serves 800+ companies including Meta, Bain and Netflix.

- **Role:** Co-Founder, Co-CEO & CTO at Marco Experiences
- **Organizations:** Marco Experiences, Brex, Instagram, Facebook, Microsoft (Xbox), LinkedIn
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Computer Science and Economics, University of California, Berkeley
- **Known for:** Founding backend engineer on Instagram Stories, helping scale the product from launch to roughly 500 million daily active users, Designed and built Cortana for Xbox One at Microsoft, Co-founded Marco Experiences, now serving 800+ companies and connecting 100K+ employees

## Career timeline

- **2013** — Software Engineer at LinkedIn, building a scalable Scala backend and a web scraper service
- **2014** — Software Development Engineer at Microsoft (Xbox), designing and developing Cortana for Xbox One
- **2015** — Software Engineer at Facebook, then Senior Software Engineer at Instagram
- **2016** — Founding backend engineer on Instagram Stories, scaling it from launch toward 500M daily users; worked on the Explore redesign
- **2019** — Senior Software Engineer at Brex
- **2020** — Co-founded Marco Experiences with Suman Siva, serving as Co-CEO and CTO

## Achievements

- Founding backend engineer on Instagram Stories, helping scale the product from launch to roughly 500 million daily active users
- Designed and built Cortana for Xbox One at Microsoft
- Co-founded Marco Experiences, now serving 800+ companies and connecting 100K+ employees
- Helped grow Marco to ~$800K annualized net revenue by December 2020, its first year
- Raised $2.87M in seed funding for Marco from investors including Singularity Capital, Potluck Ventures and Litquidity

## Latest updates

- **2025-01** — Marco continues to operate as a team-experiences and offsite-booking platform serving 800+ companies including Meta, Bain and Netflix, with Nick Freeman as Co-CEO and CTO.

## Links

- Website: https://marcoexperiences.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickafreeman/

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Last updated: 2026-06-21