Cole Striler

I'm building WithCoverage, a risk management solution for ambitious businesses. We are backed by Sequoia, Khosla, and 8VC.

When I was in seventh grade, I founded a company called Xuxa Socks. I made private-label socks manufactured in China and sold them all throughout the US. By my sophomore year of college, I was selling over 30,000 pairs of socks a year.

In college, I took a coding class and got hooked. I stopped working on the sock company and spent all my time learning how to code. The next summer, I landed a data science internship at NASA.

After the internship, I built a website called datafied.world which turned Jupyter notebooks into articles on the web. This project landed me a job at Apple.

After two years, I quit Apple and moved to Austin, where I built ClipFM, which grew to 40,000 users, and RiffGen, which reached more than 50,000 users. There, I met JD Ross and began building WithCoverage out of his living room.