Kieran O'Reilly

Entrepreneur

Building products. Creating companies. CTO who loves marketing. Passionate about startups, ideas, and technology. Brother of rory.com.

Kieran O'Reilly

Timeline

October 1995

Born

Blessed by birth to be Rory O'Reilly's brother

Born

August 2013

Started Harvard

Began studies at Harvard University

Started Harvard

May 2014

Dropped Out & Co-Founded GifYouTube

Left Harvard to start GifYouTube with Rory

Dropped Out & Co-Founded GifYouTube

June 2015

Thiel Fellow

Became a Thiel Fellow

Thiel Fellow

July 2015

Rebranded to Gifs.com

GifYouTube evolved into Gifs.com. 16m+ user created gifs seen billions of times

Rebranded to Gifs.com

2016

Forbes 30 Under 30

Recognized in Forbes 30 Under 30

November 2017

Co-Founded Expand (Gems)

Founded Expand (Gems), a platform for training AI using microworkers. Millions of tasks completed

Co-Founded Expand (Gems)

September 2020

Co-Founded Millions

Founded Millions, a debit card company

Co-Founded Millions

2020-2021

3M Social Followers

Reached 3 million followers across social (TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube)

August 2022

Co-Founded Knot

Founded Knot to connect merchants and banks through seamless API infrastructure, enabling frictionless onboarding and enhanced user experiences while driving increased spend

August 2022

Harvard Innovation Fellow

Helped mentor and teach the Harvard startup class ES95r, where unicorn startups like Etched and Mercor took form

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