Robert Gaal
Co-founder & CEO at Vliegwiel
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Gaal is a repeat founder and product-driven engineer with 14+ years building consumer and B2B products that scale—from early startups to Google. He founded and led multiple ventures (Wakoopa, Karma, Quest) including YC-backed Quest and an AI acquisition, and now runs Klime, which uses analytics and CRM signals to predict and prevent customer churn. At Google he helped ship systems reaching millions of users and later ran a startup hub in Amsterdam that grew into a top local ecosystem node. An active angel investor and operator-scout, he backs companies like Anthropic and Framer and has a track record of turning developer-built prototypes into commercial products. He’s also a community organizer and board member who successfully pushed for Dutch stock option reform, blending product grit with policy advocacy. Notably, he still codes and ships product-first solutions despite decades of executive experience, keeping technical craft central to his leadership.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (33)
mjml8
hyperlink8
responsive-email8
responsive7
feature-flags7
react7
parsing6
phone-number6
python6
data-warehouse6
javascript6
autolink5
slack5
analytics5
validation5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
robertgaal/domainpark
Apr 2012 - May 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 2 pushes in 7 years 2 months
robertgaal/stuffs
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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