# Peter Fishman

> Peter Fishman is the co-founder and CEO of Mozart Data, a Y Combinator-backed startup that lets anyone spin up a modern data stack in under an hour without hiring a data engineer. An economics PhD who once crunched numbers for the Philadelphia Eagles and ran a bacon hot sauce company, Fishman spent fifteen years building the same data pipelines over and over at Yammer, Zenefits, Opendoor, and Eaze before deciding to package that work into a product everyone could use.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Mozart Data
- **Organizations:** Mozart Data, Eaze, Opendoor, Zenefits, Yammer, Microsoft, Playdom, The Parthenon Group, Philadelphia Eagles, Bacon Hot Sauce
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Studies in Economics, London School of Economics, B.S. in Economics and Mathematics, Duke University, Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Mozart Data, a Y Combinator (S20) company, Raised approximately $39M in total funding for Mozart Data, including a $15M Series A, Helped grow Yammer from a small startup into a billion-dollar business acquired by Microsoft

## Career timeline

- **2008** — Statistician in the front office of the Philadelphia Eagles
- **2008** — Senior Economist at The Parthenon Group
- **2009** — Monetization Analyst at Playdom (later Disney)
- **2011** — Director of Analytics at Yammer, helping it grow into a billion-dollar business
- **2015** — VP of Analytics & Growth at Zenefits
- **2017** — Head of Analytics at Opendoor
- **2019** — Chief Strategy Officer at Eaze
- **2020** — Co-founded Mozart Data with Dan Silberman (Y Combinator S20)
- **2022** — Mozart Data raised a Series A; total funding reaches roughly $39M

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Mozart Data, a Y Combinator (S20) company
- Raised approximately $39M in total funding for Mozart Data, including a $15M Series A
- Helped grow Yammer from a small startup into a billion-dollar business acquired by Microsoft
- Built and ran analytics and data teams at Yammer, Zenefits, Opendoor, Playdom, and Eaze
- Earned a Ph.D. in Economics from UC Berkeley

## Latest updates

- **2023-03** — Launched Mozart Data Sonata, expanding the platform's data tooling.
- **2022-04** — Mozart Data closed its most recent funding round, bringing total funding to about $39M.

## Links

- Website: https://mozartdata.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/petefishman
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/peterfishman

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Last updated: 2026-06-08