Freestyle
We run and deploy code your AI wrote
About Freestyle
Ben and Jacob met in Calculus class in 10th grade, and tried founding a startup in high school — it didn’t go anywhere.
During high school, Ben lead the frontend team for the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 App Team.
After high school, Jacob went to Apple and Ben went to college. When there was an opening on his team, Jacob had Ben apply, and Ben left UChicago to go work at Apple.
They spent about 2 years at Apple as Senior Engineers in the Conversational Engineering Department, before leaving to found Freestyle.
Freestyle is directly inspired by what they saw as their failures of the tech they worked with at Apple.
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$10.5M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Founders
Jacob Zwang
I dropped out of college and became an Apple senior full-stack engineer in Conversational Engineering at 19. During the year and a half I worked there, I delivered multiple projects to production at scale. I love building products that inspire and delight customers, but I'm frequently frustrated by poor back-end developer tools. My co-founder and I are building a new cloud and backend workflow so that we and others can build exceptional software in a fraction of the time.
LinkedIn
Benjamin Swerdlow
Learned to code in elementary school; led the frontend team for the WHO COVID-19 App in high school; left UChicago to join Apple as a Senior Engineer in the Conversational Engineering Department before co-founding Freestyle.
LinkedInWhat happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.