Tom GL
Product Manager
For this public resume, key metrics and results of private companies have been left out.
Work
Medley
I founded Medley to help creators sell products and build their audience on multiple channels.
We were acquired one year after raising initial VC.
I led the product & marketing efforts, bootstrapping our first users with a nominal budget.
Lithium
Lithium was a crypto crowdfunding site. It allowed projects to raise capital from community and early investors.
It was grew to significant GTV in a period of just a few months. Alas, it was macro dependent.
The Lithium community token reached a (short-lived) marketcap of over $20m, entirely bootstrapped.
Simpl.rent
I founded Simpl after a terrible experience (still waiting on a good one) with an estate agent.
The vision was to create an app that would allow landlords to manage tenants directly, without using a third party service.
Simpl now does significant MRR
I left Simpl fairly early, when we pivoted to the Polish market (UK was too saturated). I don’t speak Polish and startups are difficult enough without the problem of not being able to speak to your customers.
Education & Early Work
I graduated in Chemical Engineering (Aston University) with the highest mark in my graduating class.
I worked in oil & gas for a year (Suez), then automotive (JLR). I’m not built to perform engineering calcs all day.
After my brief engineering career I moved to London and worked at a couple of startups where I learnt product management (Urban, Zeelo).
How I Waste Time
I have a YouTube channel teaching product management and entrepreneurship. It’s small (3kish subs) but does decent revenue for it’s size, I’ve made over £20k from course sales. My pseudo-intellectual newsletter has 7k subs.
In Covid I created myKanban, a productivity hardware product. We sold over £20k on Kickstarter + D2C sales.
I have too many tech-bro stereotypical hobbies. Chess (bad), Jiu-Jitsu (worse), and am currently learning Spanish (my mother in law assures me I am showing early promise). Periodically I enjoy long motorcycle adventures.