# Rebecca Shostak

> Rebecca Shostak is the co-founder and CEO of Flodesk, a design-first email marketing platform that reached $36 million in annual recurring revenue without a single dollar of outside funding. A Silicon Valley native who taught herself Photoshop at 10, designed merchandise for Rihanna and Linkin Park, and built a company that Y Combinator rejected - then outgrew - Shostak turned a template shop frustration into a platform serving over 100,000 small businesses worldwide. Now steering Flodesk into AI, she spent five months in Vietnam with her engineering team building proprietary technology and filing seven patents.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at Flodesk
- **Organizations:** Flodesk, Galleree
- **From:** Silicon Valley, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Design/Media Arts, Graphic Arts and English, UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles)
- **Known for:** Co-founded Flodesk, which reached $36M+ annual recurring revenue entirely bootstrapped, Flodesk serves 100,000+ paid customers worldwide, Youngest person to win an Adobe Design Achievement Award

## Career timeline

- **2000** — Appeared on cover of Silicon Valley magazine as a teenager discussing the internet
- **early 2000s** — Won Adobe Design Achievement Award, youngest person to receive it
- **early 2000s** — UCLA graduate in Design/Media Arts and English
- **mid-2000s** — Designed merchandise for Rihanna's Umbrella Tour and Linkin Park; work appeared in Hot Topic stores
- **2010** — Founded Galleree, a branding and design tool platform for wedding photographers; reached $500K ARR with 2,000 customers
- **2018** — Co-founded Flodesk with Martha Bitar and Trong Dong
- **2019** — Flodesk launched publicly; profitable within two weeks; rejected by Y Combinator
- **2023** — Led Flodesk rebrand back to design roots
- **2024** — Spent five months in Vietnam with engineering team developing proprietary AI technology
- **2025** — Stepped into CEO role at Flodesk; Flodesk surpassed $36M ARR and sent 13+ billion emails
- **2025** — Filing seven patents for new AI features (as of October 2025)
- **2026** — Named to Inc.'s 2026 Female Founders 500 list

## Achievements

- Co-founded Flodesk, which reached $36M+ annual recurring revenue entirely bootstrapped
- Flodesk serves 100,000+ paid customers worldwide
- Youngest person to win an Adobe Design Achievement Award
- Named to Inc.'s 2026 Female Founders 500 list
- Built Galleree to $500K ARR with 2,000 customers before Flodesk
- Designed merchandise for Rihanna's Umbrella Tour and Linkin Park
- Flodesk emails achieve 17% higher open rates than industry average
- Platform sent 13+ billion emails in 2025
- Filing seven patents for AI-powered email marketing features
- Bootstrapped Flodesk to profitability in just two weeks post-launch

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Named to Inc.'s 2026 Female Founders 500 list
- **2026-01** — Flodesk surpassed $36M ARR; Rebecca officially serving as CEO
- **2025-10** — Filing seven patents for new AI-powered features developed with Vietnam engineering team
- **2025** — Flodesk customers sent 13+ billion emails and added 314 million subscribers to audiences
- **2024** — Spent five months in Vietnam building proprietary AI technology with engineering team

## Links

- Website: https://flodesk.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-shostak-17048a60
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebecca.shostak/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rebecca.shostak/

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Last updated: 2026-05-15