4x founder

Chapman Snowden

Mining. But on asteroids.

Co-founder

GoBuild (fka Brick)· Winter 2021 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @ChapmanSnowden

2026Chief Operating Officer· AstroForge

Founder · since 2011

Company

AstroForge

Role

Chief Operating Officer

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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GoBuild (fka Brick)

The payments solution for small scale construction.

Winter 2021

Experience

Career

AstroForge
Chief Operating Officer · 2026 – Present
2026
AstroForge
Head of Mining · 2025 – 2026
2025
AstroForge
Chief of Staff · 2024 – 2025
2024
Modern FinOps, Inc.
Co-founder
CEO & Cofounder · Oakland, California, United States · 2022 – 2023
2022
GoBuild
Co-founder
CEO & Cofounder (YC W21) · Oakland, California, United States · 2019 – 2022
2019
South Park Commons
Member · San Francisco Bay Area · 2019 – 2020
2019
Precursor Ventures
Entrepreneur In Residence · San Francisco Bay Area · 2018 – 2019
2018
Travrse
Founder
Founder/CEO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2017 – 2018
2017
Google
Program Manager, Tech Student Development · San Francisco Bay Area · 2016 – 2017
2016
Google
Online Education Specialist, Tech Student Development · Sunnyvale, CA · 2015 – 2016
2015
Make School
Consultant · San Francisco Bay Area · 2015
2015
Dev Bootcamp
Head of Expansion and New Products · San Francisco Bay Area · 2013 – 2014
2013
Kinobi
Founder
Founder · Greater New Orleans Area / San Francisco · 2011 – 2012
2011
4.0 Schools
Lab Fellow · Greater New Orleans Area · 2011
2011
Mass Insight Education
Program Manager, The School Turnaround Group · Greater Boston Area · 2010 – 2011
2010
New Profit Inc.
Portfolio Analyst · Greater Boston Area · 2008 – 2010
2008
J.P. Morgan
Analyst · Greater Boston Area · 2007 – 2008
2007

Bio

Chap is the cofounder and CEO of Brick (W21). Prior to founding Brick, he was an EIR at Precursor Ventures. He's an experienced operator with a focus on consumer products, having built and scaled ed tech products for Google and Dev Bootcamp. Chap’s 10+ year career spans finance, venture philanthropy, and education technology startups.