Chandler Koglmeier
Builder. Operator. Angel investor and startup advisor. Most recently SVP at Guild.
I've spent almost two decades building products used by millions — at TripAdvisor, Craftsy, and Guild — and now spend most of my time on the frontier of AI, workforce, and what comes next.
Supporting Founders
I'm an early-stage angel investor and advisor, focused on businesses built to compound — marketplaces, resilient systems (energy, ag), workforce and education, and the intersection of AI and human purpose. Learn more.
Writing
On who really owns the intelligence inside a company, why wages and equity both get it wrong, and what a model built for intelligence would look like.
On what AI does to the management layer and why most organizations are responding to a coordination crisis by ignoring it.
On what happens to work, roles, and organizations when AI absorbs coordination — and only judgment remains.
What makes a business genuinely hard to replicate — and the human forces that make it hard to abandon.
Things I'm exploring
Fundraising and storytelling for founders. It helps shape the narrative behind a raise: the story, the deck, and how a pitch actually lands.
A local-only command-line tool for finding high-fit startup roles before they become obvious job posts. It watches sources, scores each one against your profile, and shows its reasoning. Open source.
Investment evaluation for angels. It helps size up an early-stage deal: what to look at, what to weigh, and where the deal is strong or thin.
Friday night is Pizza Movie Night; a tradition with friends. Deciding on the movie got spicy, so the kids helped build an app to rotate who picks.