Summary
Eric Brownrout is a product-minded founder and Co-Founder of Frigade (YC W23), a product onboarding platform used by companies like Orb, Merge, and Sanity and backed by General Catalyst, Craft Ventures, the CEO of Vercel, and a Dropbox cofounder. With ten years in tech, he’s led product at Digit (building Digit Direct), shaped notifications and admin experiences at LinkedIn, and launched startups including Perform and Pvmnt. A Northwestern-trained computer scientist, he combines technical fluency with product strategy and operational rigor — in college he ran Dillo Day as Mayfest co-chair, managing a $400K budget and an 80-person board. He focuses on turning complex developer and SaaS onboarding problems into simple, scalable experiences.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Northwestern University