Alex spent five years running 5475 Days — an events company built around whiskey and hospitality. Five years of Eventbrite for tickets, Mailchimp for email, Airtable for contacts, a spreadsheet for vendors, and a PDF floor plan he redrew before every event.
None of it talked to each other. The sponsors he worked hard to close got a manually assembled PDF four days after the event. His best attendees were buried in an export he pulled six months ago and never had time to combine with the one before it.
He had years of valuable data and almost no insight from it.
He met Brandon, who had spent four years as CTO of Fishbowl — a 25-year-old restaurant marketing company — building exactly this kind of unified data platform for restaurant operators. The pain was identical. The customer was identical. The gap in the market was the same.
krowd is the platform Alex always wanted to have. It turns out 600,000 other organizers want it too.
Built by people who've done it.
Brandon
Co-Founder & CEO
Brandon was CTO at Fishbowl, a guest relationship management platform serving restaurant operators, where he led a full technology turnaround and successful acquisition within four years. He's building krowd because the event organizer problem is the same problem he just spent four years solving for restaurants — fragmented data, no unified view of the customer, no good tools at an accessible price point.
Focus: Investor relationships, fundraising, pricing, product strategy, and GTM.
Alex
Co-Founder & COO
Alex is the founder and operator of 5475 Days, named for the average age of a bottle of whiskey. He has spent five years running events — coordinating vendors, managing sponsors, recruiting volunteers, and building an audience from scratch. He has lived every pain point krowd solves.
Focus: Customer discovery, onboarding, vendor relationships, and day-to-day operations.
Founding Engineer
Engineering
Owns the full MVP build: attendee CRM, email marketing, sponsorship pipeline, and reporting. Working for equity. No engineering salary until Series A — which means the capital we raise goes directly to finding customers, not salaries.
Focus: Full-stack product development.
How we think about the product.
We build for the operator, not the enterprise
krowd is not Cvent. We are not building for IT departments and procurement committees. We are building for the person who runs their own events, knows every vendor by name, and has been running the same spreadsheet for three years because nothing better exists.
We charge flat because we're on your side
Per-ticket fees align the platform's incentives against yours — the more successful your event, the more you pay. Flat subscription means we win when you win long-term, not when you sell a lot of tickets this month.
Honest numbers, honest product
We tell organizers exactly what krowd can do today and what's coming. We don't oversell. We don't lock you in with features you can't access. We earn retention.