Russ Heddleston

Co-founder & CEO, Distill

Governance, RiskSan FranciscoOn TechTO stages since 2021

Russ Heddleston co-founded DocSend in 2013 and ran it as CEO until Dropbox bought it in 2021 for $165M. He had earlier sold a startup to Facebook and interned at Dropbox. He is now co-founder and CEO of Distill, a corporate governance company, and joined TechTO Together in February 2021 to talk about the acquisition.

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TECHTO TOGETHER1:40:26

February 2021 TechTOgether featuring Russ Heddleston of DocSend & Mike Potter of Rewind

Together · February 2021

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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2021. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Russ ↗

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Podcast

Russ Heddleston on DocSend's Journey from Seed to AcquisitionMark MacLeod

2024

Podcast

How DocSend sold to Dropbox for $165,000,000Mixergy

2022

Quick answers

What happened to DocSend?

Dropbox acquired it in March 2021 for $165M. Heddleston stayed on to lead DocSend inside Dropbox after the deal.

What is Distill?

A corporate governance company where Heddleston is co-founder and CEO — a single place for the board, equity and entity paperwork a private company accumulates.

What did he build before DocSend?

Pursuit, an HR technology startup acquired by Facebook in 2011. He holds a Stanford master's in computer science and an MBA from Harvard.

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