Summary
Chris Labasky is a product leader and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building fintech and on-demand marketplaces, currently shaping product at BILL after nearly a decade co-founding Abound to deliver independent benefits for the 1099 workforce. With a BS in Finance and hands-on engineering roots from early senior software roles, he blends financial acumen with technical fluency to ship products that bridge benefits, payments, and gig-economy needs. As Cofounder & CFO at multiple startups, he has deep operational experience scaling finance and product teams through high-growth stages. He favors pragmatic, user-centered solutions that make complex regulatory and benefits problems simple for contractors. Based in New York, he’s pursuing further CS study and brings a rare mix of founder grit, product intuition, and cross-functional execution. An understated strength is his ability to translate accounting and compliance constraints into elegant product tradeoffs that accelerate adoption.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Chulalongkorn University