BRANDONGOTLIEB
I build payments, partnerships, and products for the people who work for themselves.
See the work↓Agentic payments × SMB
Two things have my full attention: how AI agents will actually pay merchants — cards, acceptance, trust — and the unglamorous, brilliant world of small businesses. If you're building in either, I want to hear about it.
Selected work
/01—04- 01
Found
2023—nowNeobank for the self-employed, backed by Sequoia, Lightspeed, and Founders Fund. I lead payments partnerships — a debit program shipping 250k+ cards a year, RTP and check-sending launches, and a business toolkit grown into a $1M+ ARR unit.
PaymentsPartnerships - 02
Nox
2022COO and founding team member of a student neobank backed by Sam Altman and Village Global. Built the banking platform on Treasury Prime, landed the charter-bank partnership, and secured a $500k venture debt line.
Neobank0→1 - 03
Steadily
2021Launched the partnerships function at this landlord-insurance startup — built a network of 25 partners across proptech and property management, plus the marketing and onboarding that kept them.
InsurtechPartnerships - 04
Sunny Day Fund
2021Ran go-to-market for an employer-rewarded emergency savings platform — new channels drove a 6x increase in inbound leads and a pipeline of 50 leading benefits brokers.
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About.
I'm a payments and partnerships operator who likes the machinery most people never see — card programs, banking rails, and the deals that hold them together. Today that's at Found, a neobank for the self-employed, where I lead payments partnerships.
Before Found I was COO and a founding team member at Nox, built partnership programs at Steadily and Sunny Day Fund, founded NXTSTOR, and spent time as a Venture Partner at Contrary Capital. The through-line: early-stage companies, ambiguous problems, and revenue lines that didn't exist before.
Off the clock you'll find me hiking, skiing, or around airplanes. Ohio State grad — inaugural honors finance cohort, entrepreneurship minor.
- Currently
- Payments Partnerships @ Found
- Previously
- Nox, Contrary Capital, NXTSTOR
- Excited about
- Agentic payments, SMBs
- Based in
- Portland, OR