# Robert Kowalski

> Robert Kowalski is the co-founder and CEO of Gyfted, a behavioral-science recruiting platform that matches people to jobs and teams on personality, culture fit and ability rather than CVs. A Stanford GSB MBA and LSE economist, he built Gyfted with Stanford computational psychologist Michal Kosinski and engineer Adam Szefer to make remote hiring faster and less biased. He signs his own title 'Village Idiot ie. CEO' and frames the entire recruiting industry as broken and worth flipping over.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Gyfted
- **Organizations:** Gyfted, Aegis Custody, GEn1E Lifesciences
- **Nationality:** Polish
- **Education:** BSc (Hons) Economics & Economic History, First Class, London School of Economics (LSE), MA in Economics / International Policy, Stanford University, MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Exchange via Stanford-Tsinghua program, Tsinghua University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Gyfted, a behavioral-science recruiting and talent-matching platform, Hired a customer success manager for a high-growth startup in just 12 days, Closed a Fortune 1000 enterprise team-wide deal within two months (Dec 2022)

## Career timeline

- **2015** — Meets computational psychologist Michal Kosinski at Stanford; the two Poles bond over labor-market dynamics.
- **2020-2021** — Gyfted is designed and built across California and Poland with co-founders Kosinski and Adam Szefer.
- **2022** — Closes a Fortune 1000 team-wide deal within two months (December 2022); expands the platform.
- **2023** — Reports ~$950K raised, $1.5M GMV in under 10 months, and 10,000 organic users per month; seed funding round.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Gyfted, a behavioral-science recruiting and talent-matching platform
- Hired a customer success manager for a high-growth startup in just 12 days
- Closed a Fortune 1000 enterprise team-wide deal within two months (Dec 2022)
- Grew Gyfted to 10,000 organic users per month through SEO
- Reached $1.5M GMV in under 10 months post-launch
- Raised roughly $950K in early funding (total funding reported at $3.13M)

## Latest updates

- **2024-02** — Shares write-ups about Gyfted's growth and unbiased-recruitment messaging on LinkedIn.
- **2023-05** — Seed funding reported; posts about 155%+ month-over-month growth at Gyfted.

## Links

- Website: https://gyfted.me
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rkowal
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Gyfted10
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gyfted.me

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Last updated: 2026-06-21