Gil Hildebrand Email & Phone Number

On a mission to $1M in revenue as a bootstrapper and solopreneur

New Orleans, Louisiana, Us

Gilded provides essential accounting and payment tools for businesses that use blockchain, cryptocurrency, and NFTs. Backed by Bonfire Ventures, Alumni Ventures, and Techstars. Acquired by Bitwave.

High impact web development, design, and marketing consultancy with clients including NYCEDC, Entergy, Designer Fund, Renaissance Periodization, and The Wirecutter.

Technical cofounder for a social publishing platform, at its peak one of the top 50 US websites. Acquired in 2012.Responsible for all aspects of technical development and operations. Led the company's anti-spam, performance, SEO, and business intelligence campaigns. Designed an architecture that scaled to 100mm+ pageviews per month with greater than 99.9% uptime.Highly respected, strong presence in the community, earning the moniker "giltotherescue".

The place to find geeks and creatives for your next big project. Funded by Betaworks.Lead developer from prototype to public beta launch. In addition, helped organize several years of the annual NYC BigApps competition, with dozens of teams and over $100k in prizes from brand-name sponsors.

Founder of an enterprise hiring management software startup. Led the product vision, engineering, sales, and marketing efforts using a customer development process. Secured customers in the insurance and healthcare industries. Sunset the business after Hurricane Katrina.

Freelance developer, server administrator, PC and network technician for New Orleans based businesses. Lead developer on software projects including recruiting, e-commerce, and business process automation. Helped one client in a labor-intensive industry double in size with half the labor force. Led the design and deployment of a highly effective, cost efficient marine communications network for a fleet of 30+ tugboats, including hardware and network analysis, provisioning, software development, security, physical installation, and operator training.

Licensed insurance producer in the state of Louisiana. Sold health and life insurance to self-employed and small business owners. Six month stint in order to gain sales experience.Attended weekly sales meetings, warm called leads to secure in-person consultations, traveled to meet prospective customers, networked to develop my own leads, and learned how to approach uncomfortable topics with compassion and direction. During the end of my stint, I was writing new business consistently every week.

Developer and server admin for a New Orleans based digital consulting agency. Established a reputation for solving the company's hardest technical challenges. Experimented with early Ajax-like effects using Javascript and Flash.