# Terrell Marshall

> Terrell Marshall is the founder and CEO of Passage (YC S24), a San Francisco startup building an AI co-pilot for customs brokers and trade compliance teams. Before Passage, he worked on AI products used by more than a billion people at Google, including Google Photos, Google Payments, and Hotels Search, and was a software engineer at Workday. He co-founded Passage with Aditya Nadkarni, a college friend with whom he also holds a patent for an AI physical therapy platform. Passage automates the manual data entry and email correspondence that customs teams spend hours on, pulling data from commercial invoices, bills of lading, and packing lists to pre-fill entry filings and validate compliance.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Passage (YC S24)
- **Organizations:** Passage (YC S24), Google, Workday, Y Combinator
- **Nationality:** American
- **Known for:** Founded Passage (YC S24), an AI co-pilot for the customs brokering and trade compliance industry, Contributed to AI features on Google Photos, a product used by over a billion people, Worked on Google Payments and Hotels Search at Google

## Career timeline

- **Earlier** — Software engineer at Workday
- **At Google** — Worked on AI products used by 1B+ people, including Google Photos, Google Payments, and Hotels Search
- **2024** — Co-founded Passage with Aditya Nadkarni; accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2024 (S24) batch
- **2024-present** — Serves as Founder & CEO of Passage, building an AI co-pilot for customs brokers and trade compliance teams

## Achievements

- Founded Passage (YC S24), an AI co-pilot for the customs brokering and trade compliance industry
- Contributed to AI features on Google Photos, a product used by over a billion people
- Worked on Google Payments and Hotels Search at Google
- Co-holds a patent for an AI physical therapy platform developed with co-founder Aditya Nadkarni
- Selected for Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch

## Latest updates

- **2024-06** — Co-founded Passage and joined Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch, building an AI co-pilot for customs brokering.

## Links

- Website: https://www.trypassage.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrellm/

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Last updated: 2026-07-31