# Paul Koullick

> Paul Koullick is a San Francisco-based product leader and Keeper co-founder who announced a move to Google Meet in August 2025 to accelerate its AI integration. He led Keeper from its 2018 founding through profitability and approximately eight-digit annual recurring revenue, according to his May 2025 account, before handing the CEO role to co-founder David Kang. A Harvard applied mathematics graduate, he previously worked at Square, Stride and Amplitude and publishes practical essays about products, documentation and decisions.

- **Role:** Product leader at Google Meet; Keeper co-founder and former CEO
- **Organizations:** Google, Keeper, Amplitude, Stride, Square
- **Nationality:** Dutch (identified as Dutch in a January 2020 NeoFeed interview)
- **Education:** A.B., Applied Mathematics; computer science background, Harvard University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Keeper in 2018 with David Kang., Led Keeper through approximately eight-digit annual recurring revenue and profitability, as he reported in May 2025., Reported more than $15 million raised over his seven-year Keeper leadership period.

## Career timeline

- **2014** — Graduated from Harvard; joined Square as a product analyst.
- **2015–2017** — Worked at Stride, leading tax product and helping build and grow Stride Tax.
- **2017–2018** — Worked in product at Amplitude; published essays about user research, metrics and documentation.
- **2018** — Co-founded Keeper with David Kang.
- **2019** — Keeper graduated from Y Combinator’s winter batch; Harvard reported more than 1,000 paying subscribers in August.
- **2021** — Keeper announced a $13 million Series A on April 29.
- **2023** — Hosted Bad Startup Advice; appeared on AI-First Business and VatorNews podcasts.
- **2025-04** — Published Templates by Paul and his three-type decision framework.
- **2025-05** — Announced transition from CEO to President and Board Member, handing the CEO role to David Kang.
- **2025-08** — Announced joining Google Meet to accelerate its AI integration.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Keeper in 2018 with David Kang.
- Led Keeper through approximately eight-digit annual recurring revenue and profitability, as he reported in May 2025.
- Reported more than $15 million raised over his seven-year Keeper leadership period.
- Helped build and grow Stride Tax before founding Keeper.
- Published practical documentation templates and decision-making frameworks developed through his product and leadership work.

## Latest updates

- **2025-08** — Announced his move to Google Meet and published lessons from a job search involving 18 organizations.
- **2025-05** — Announced handing the Keeper CEO role to David Kang and transitioning to President and Board Member.
- **2025-04** — Published Templates by Paul and Type 1 / 2 / 3 Decisions.

## Links

- Website: https://paulkoullick.substack.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulkoullick
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/koullick

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Last updated: 2026-10-22