Why we built Distill

Built by founders who've done the reaching out.

Never makes you look dumb

Never sounds like AI

We started Distill because we lived the problem. The best deals, hires, and relationships come from an exec reaching out personally. Unfortunately the people most likely to get a response are also the ones least likely to have time for outreach. So we built the service we wished we’d had on two promises: it won’t make you look dumb, and it won’t sound like AI. Just quality conversations that Distill starts for you.

Between us, we’ve founded four companies and sold three, to Dropbox, Meta, and Yahoo. Every one needed this kind of outreach along the way.

Meet the Founders

Russ Heddleston01

CEO

Russ Heddleston

Russ Heddleston is the CEO of Distill, having previously founded and sold DocSend for $165 million with $15 million raised, seeing it scale past $100m in ARR. Previously, he started and sold an HR tech startup Pursuit to Meta.

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Tim Su02

CTO

Tim Su

Tim Su is the CTO of Distill, known for founding Tandem, a YC alum project, where he raised $7.5 million from a16z. He also started and sold Astrid to Yahoo, scaling it to over 6 million users.

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Meet the Team