Summary
Sheldon Smickley is a founder-led product and growth operator with 11 years building seed and Series A startups from zero to scale, specializing in turning tiny teams into revenue-generating businesses. As a CEO and product leader he’s driven B2B, enterprise, and consumer pivots that produced multi-million ARR outcomes—ranging from an AI-driven transaction screener adopted by a top-10 bank to a podcast recommendation engine that scaled to 85K users and later became a $200K+/month SaaS. He combines hands-on product management, data science training, and engineering fluency (full-stack and scripting background) to prototype, launch, and iterate rapidly with small teams. Notably, he led a device-graph product from $2M to $18M ARR that culminated in a $380M acquisition, and he repeatedly surfaces product-market fit and growth loops across industries including esports and philanthropy. Based in New York, Sheldon now builds onchain growth at Torque Labs while advising and consulting early-stage teams on positioning, go-to-market, and monetization strategies.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Developer, Full Stack Web Developer at Bloc
Data Science Intensive, Data Science Intensive at Springboard
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Economics, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Economics at Rutgers University
English