Robert Kowalski

Co-Founder @ Stealth Startup

About

- Mission-driven, open, creative people person with a growth mindset - Get shit done attitude in GTM, product & culture side - Proactively solve problems & adapt, enjoy getting out of my comfort zone - Passion for freedom, edu, markets, tech, governance & Bitcoin

Country

United States

City

Stanford

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Customer Success, Strategy, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Management, Leadership, Negotiation, Research, Business Development, Analysis, Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions, Sales, Public Policy, Finance, Investments, Public Relations, Due Diligence, Venture Capital, Start-up Environment

Experience

Co-Founder

Stealth Startup

2025-9 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

spotkamy się w centrum

Co-Founder, Village Idiot ie. CEO

Gyfted

2020-9 - Present · 6 yrs 1 mo

Palo Alto, California, United States

Assess hidden talent for culture fit, remote fit, growth potential & merit. We're a data-driven job matching platform for remote-first & culture-first companies.

Co-Founder

SEO Savages

2025-2 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Fuel your organic growth: programmatic SEO / niche boutique SEO, AI-driven

Fellow, TF9

Transcend Network

2022-11 - 2023-1 · 3 mos

First global network of founders building the future of work and learning. TF9

F21 batch

StartX

2021-10 - 2022-1 · 4 mos

Palo Alto, California, United States

Stanford’s non-profit deeptech founder accelerator. 800+ funded startups, including Patreon, Lime, Protocol Labs, Ethos Insurance, OpenSea.

Ambassador

Center for Leadership (CL)

2017-6 - 2021-12 · 4 yrs 7 mos

refer candidates to #1 leadership development program in PL

Head of Business Development

Aegis Custody & Aegis Trust

2019-5 - 2019-9 · 5 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

Brief adventure into institutional investor digital asset custody (Bitcoin, Ethereum) https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/another-crypto-custodian-is-on-the-rise-and-its-first-client-is-a-foxconn-subsidiary/

Consultant

GEn1E Lifesciences Inc.

2019-3 - 2019-4 · 2 mos

Palo Alto, CA

Worked w/ GEn1E's CEO on pitch deck & messaging for fundraising & YC. GEn1E entered YC S19 batch. Strong, passionate team & pharma innovation that'll do a LOT of good https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/meet-gen1e-biotech-bringing-p38alpha-kinase-drugs-to-inflammatory-diseases

Head of Business Development

Megaspace

2018-8 - 2019-3 · 8 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

> Startup closed (too early to market) & returned capital to investors > Stealth mode we built on Bitcoin & Grin infrastructure for the decentralized web & money - open source APIs/SDK for data & event management across key chains (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Grin)

Strategic Business Development Manager

OpenGov Inc.

2016-10 - 2018-9 · 2 yrs

Redwood City, CA

> Grew strategic accounts in "startup in a startup" role selling to state & federal and building the team's function cross-functionally -- became fastest growing revenue line in co. > Powering more effective and accountable government: budgeting, performance management & open source open data

Education

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Entrepreneurship, General Management, Investing, Emerging Markets, Blockchain

2014 - 2016 · 2 yrs

Stanford University

International Policy (Political Economics)

Financed degree via Teaching Assistantships in Stanford's Economics Department(Micro, Macro, American Economic History, Ethics in Economic Policy) and IPS (International Trade)