Plato

Plato is the mentorship platform for engineering leaders

y-combinatorWinter 2016🇺🇸 San Francisco26 people

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Acquired

Jean-Baptiste Coger, Quang Hoang · 2 co-founders

2026Acquired

Acquired

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current

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About

Plato turns the company's engineering and product managers into better leaders. We help resolve challenging management situation as they arise, in real-time thanks to video one-on-one conversations, AMAs, and more with experienced technical leaders form Google,Netflix, Lyft, Box, etc.

2 founders

Jean-Baptiste Coger

Founder/CPO

in LinkedIn

Quang Hoang

Founder/CEO

2X YC Founder || CEO/Cofounder of Vybe (X25) || ex-CEO/Cofounder of Plato (W16, acquired by Coda) At Plato, we were building a mentorship platform for engineering leaders. - We grew to 5M of ARR selling to CTOs/VPs of Engineering - We worked with notable customers like Airbnb, Stripe, Coinbase, Slack, Twilio, etc. - We grew a community of 30k+ engineering leaders - We raised $23M in total with Slack, Fundersclub, S28 Capital, SaaSTR Fund, etc. and got to a team of 70 people

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @qhoang09