Pierre

Pierre is a new, opinionated, git platform.

Y CombinatorWinter 2023ActiveB2BEngineering, Product and DesignAI-Enhanced LearningDeveloper ToolsB2BProductivity

What they do

Problem

Modern development teams need faster, more integrated code hosting, review, and CI workflows that better support small, focused teams and AI-augmented development.

Solution

An opinionated git platform that rebuilds code hosting, code review, and CI primitives for next-generation professional developer workflows.

Who it's for

Professional software developers and small, focused engineering teams building and shipping code.

Founders

Jacob Thornton

Founder

Jacob Thornton has been doing software development in the bay area for over a decade, as an early employee at startups like Twitter, Medium, and Coinbase. During this time he contributed to several large open source projects (most notably as the co-creator of Twitter Bootstrap), given talks around the world (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIDb6VBO9os), and written several chapters in technical books (beautiful javascript, if Hemingway wrote javascript).

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Ian Ownbey

Founder

I have worked for a number of consumer tech companies ranging from Twitter in 2010 to Coinbase in 2018. I started as a backend engineer using Ruby on Rails and then eventually moved up the stack to iOS engineering, React Native engineering and now mostly React. I enjoy hanging out with my cat when not working.