Zach Hamed is a design-focused engineer who enjoys designing, building, and selling software.
I’m currently co-founder and co-CEO of Clay, a beautiful and private home for your personal and professional relationships. Previously, I helped build the product team at Goldman Sachs, co-founded a startup in the enterprise developer tools space, and some other stuff I’ll talk about below.

WRITING
Reading
The Man Who Solved The Market
Bookmarking
Just
LISTENING
Tough by Quavo & Lana Del Rey
WATCHING
Severance Season 2
POSTING
twitter / linkedin / mastodon / soundcloud / dribbble

Clay is a beautiful personal CRM, contact manager, and rolodex for people across industries who want to be more thoughtful with the people they know.




Clay manages hundreds of millions of relationships for a wide range of professionals across industries — Fortune 500 CEOs, doctors, real estate agents, MBAs, non-profits, and everyone in between.
We’ve raised $8 million from top-tier investors like Forerunner Ventures (early investors in Glossier, Warby Parker, and Chime), General Catalyst (early investors in Airbnb, Stripe, and Snap), and forward-thinking executives from a diverse set of companies and organizations including Linkedin, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Airbnb, Airtable, the NFL, the Obama White House, Hollywood, and more.
Clay won Best Work & Productivity App, awarded by both judges and the People’s Choice, in the 26th Annual Webby Awards Internet Celebration. We were also featured in Apple’s 2024 WWDC keynote, named as a new and noteworthy Productivity app, and one of the best CRMs in the App Store.

Before Clay, I helped build the product team for Goldman Sachs’ web platform Marquee, which caters to institutional clients.




In three years, we scaled from a one-pizza team to a ten-pizza team, increasing trades through our web and API offerings to billions of dollars.
Marquee is now one of the most sophisticated fintech platforms in institutional finance, allowing Goldman’s biggest clients to read research reports, analyze their portfolios, understand their risk, and execute trades.
The team is now a startup within Goldman Sachs, with product, design, and engineering dedicated to transforming the future of institutional finance. Watch our CIO-turned-CFO Marty Chavez discuss what we built.

latest post
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Formats and Frameworks
Came across @eddiejiaoobj’s launch of Common Knowledge today: Now, Machine Intelligence gives us a new material – one whose inherent malleability allows us to invent entirely new categories of document. How will these new documents allow… Keep reading →
LIVE STATS

4501
steps walked so far today, versus 3934 steps walked yesterday

451
calories burned so far today

9.2
hours of productive time on my computer yesterday, representing 91% of all computer time

82
bpm average heart rate today, with a min of 60 bpm and a max of 125 bpm

8.2
hours of sleep last night, getting 4.32 hours of REM sleep and 1.59 hours of deep sleep

