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January
2025

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.

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 won Best Work & Productivity App, awarded by both judges and the People's Choice, in the 26th Annual Webby Awards Internet Celebration.

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.

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),

Me, by the numbers

Clay was featured in Apple’s WWDC 2024 keynote.

7038

542

calories burned so far today

steps walked so far today, versus 4121 steps walked yesterday

9.3

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

bpm average heart rate today, with a min of 54 bpm and a max of 139 bpm

Now listening to

Dont Stop Me Now

7.92

Queen

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

Now reading

Lessons of Design

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.

We also built an entire API platform, allowing developers to interact with the bank programmatically and enabling an entirely new interaction and business model for our clients.

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.

Zachary Hamed - Building Clay, Previously Goldman Sachs Marquee | Forbes 30 Under 30 | Harvard

Zach Hamed is a design-focused engineer who enjoys designing, building, and selling software.

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.

Me, by the numbers

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

Blogposts

Read more over at blog.zmh.org