Grant Collins

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Founder at Verge Foods | ex-Microsoft

Verge Foods
Vancouver, BC · PT (UTC-8)
3+ years experience
University of British Columbia
English
Hiring
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Overview

Building Verge Foods in Vancouver - developer tooling. Took Verge Foods from zero to $10 million ARR. Previously built and sold a small developer tooling company. Previously at Microsoft. Most at home with developer tools and product. Outside work: long runs and longer podcasts.

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communityopen sourcedeveloper toolsproduct
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Verge Foods is hiring 5 founding engineers in Vancouver

Role
Founding engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
$181k-$226k
Team
Founding team, 9 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
Production experience with community Production experience with open source Ownership of something end to end
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp C$164k-C$232k. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Vancouver, BC · remote OKcommunityopen sourceproduct
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Experience

  1. Founder
    Jun 2024 - Present
    Verge Foods · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Previously built and sold a small developer tooling company.
    • Signed 355 paying customers, 23 of them enterprises.
    • Took Verge Foods from zero to $11 million ARR.
  2. Senior Account Executive
    Oct 2023 - Jun 2024
    Microsoft · 8 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Built the partnerships team from 5 to 30 reps.
    • Signed 13 channel partners that now source 28% of pipeline.

Projects

Side project: a budgeting app
2025

Built with community and open source. 878 people used it last year.

Conference talk: lessons from company
2025

What went wrong and what worked while scaling developer tooling.

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Education

  1. University of British Columbia
    BSc, Economics
    2019 - 2023

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