The web has come a long way in the last ten years, but why is email stuck in the past?
It doesn't have to be that way. We want to change that. We want to reimagine email.
Resend started with an open source project in 2022. We were frustrated by how difficult it was to build modern email templates that worked well across all email clients.
As we started to dig deeper, it became clear that this was just the tip of the iceberg. We realized that sending emails that reach the inbox (not the spam folder) was the biggest pain point, so we started to explore something new.
In 2023, we launched an entire email sending platform and joined Y Combinator's winter batch. We're creating something special here, and we're excited to build it with you.
A fully remote team on a mission to build
the best communication platform for developers.
Founding team meeting for the first time in-person during a trip to Portugal
Principles that dictate how we think, behave, and make decisions.
Zeno Rocha
<zeno@resend.com>
You can't inspire people by doing an “okay” job. To inspire, you need to do phenomenal work. Quality is not a plus; it's a must-have. We know nothing will ever be perfect, but that doesn't stop us from pushing the limits. We don't want to just meet the bar of our peers. We want to raise the bar. The sum of all the small details is what makes something special.
Jonni Lundy
<jonni@resend.com>
Helping others is part of the job. It's okay to admit you don't know something and ask for help - it's a sign of strength, not weakness. We work together as an async team and assume positive intent. We communicate in a kind, direct, and transparent way.
Bu Kinoshita
<bu@resend.com>
Speed is key. We prioritize ruthlessly, have a strong sense of urgency, and make decisions fast. We constantly review the scope of a project and work toward a v0, not a v1. We ship early, and we ship often.
Zeh Fernandes
<zeh@resend.com>
Regardless of what you do, we are all makers, and makers don't wait. When we see a problem, we don't expect someone to fix it or tell us what to do. Instead, we take initiative, find creative ways around it, and send a pull request to solve it. Remember - no problem is too small.
We are fortunate to work with some of the best investors in the world.
Chances are you are already using the products they helped to create.
Dylan Field
Founder of Figma
Guillermo Rauch
Founder of Vercel
Michael Grinich
Founder of WorkOS
Elad Gil
Investor
Ahmad Awais
Founder of Langbase
Alana Goyal
Founder of Base Case
Beth Turner
Partner at SV Angel
Britton Winterrose
AI Advisor at Microsoft
Briza Rocha
Director at Alibaba
Calvin French-Owen
Co-Founder of Segment
Cassidy Williams
CTO at Contenda
Christopher Golda
Founder of Rogue Capital
Darian Shirazi
GP at Gradient
David Cramer
Co-Founder of Sentry
David Mytton
Co-Founder of Console
Jack McCloy
Engineering at Amplitude
James Hawkins
Co-Founder of Posthog
Jean-Denis Greze
CTO at Plaid
Jeff Henriod
Business Dev at AWS
Kenneth Auchenberg
Product Lead at Stripe
Lachy Groom
Investor
Lee Robinson
VP of DX at Vercel
Paul Copplestone
Co-Founder of Supabase
Shawn Wang
Founder of Devtools-Angels
Sidharth Kakkar
Co-Founder of Subscript
Theo Browne
Founder of Ping
Thomas Paul Mann
Co-Founder of Raycast
Tido Carriero
Co-Founder of Koala
We're creating something special here, and we're looking
for people who care deeply about quality to build it with us.