Gavin Nachbar
@GavinNachbar
Co-founder at @ColumnTax. Former @Waymo, @Dropbox, @PremiseData. We're hiring! http://jobs.columntax.com
Big milestone for @ColumnTax! Raising a Series A and receiving IRS authorization is a significant step for the team here. We're hiring across the board! If you work in Engineering, Product Design, or BizOps — my DMs are open, I’d love to hear from you!
Thrilled to share we've raised $21.7m for @ColumnTax to scale up our fundamentally new tax filing product forbes.com/sites/igorbosi… It's been so much fun building the first-ever IRS authorized tax filing API with the amazing team here
Love this team!
We just got back from an incredible offsite where the team spent the week shipping, planning & celebrating a record year. Column Tax is fastest-growing tax-filing startup in the U.S. - a credit to a team that pairs big vision with relentless execution and loves working together.…
The first-ever industry benchmark for AI tax filing is here! Before today, no one had systematically evaluated AI's ability to handle US tax returns. TaxCalcBench changes that. TaxCalcBench includes pairs of realistic user inputs (like W-2s and 1099s) alongside the expected tax…
1/ Can AI file your taxes? Not yet. We tested the latest frontier models and the results were full of catastrophic errors. Letting AI do your taxes would mean IRS rejections, audits, and penalties:
The right refresh frequency means you’ll be able to spot outages your customers are having before their alerts fire 🙃
what is the appropriate frequency for a founder to look at their metrics?
At a startup you either build or sell. Or you help the people building and selling do more of it!
PSA to college students looking for internships. never ever say in your cold email that you want to work on anything remotely like strategy. not: - gtm strategy - corp finance strategy - fundraising strategy - product strategy etc. none of it. all bad. the strategy is build…
The IRS filing season report is out and @ColumnTax is the fastest-growing U.S. tax filing startup for the second year in a row 📈 Getting here has been the result of an incredible team that sweats the details every day. Our focus is always on highest-quality tax product for our…

Turns out this is a fun prompt to ask directly! More interesting when you ask for the more unflattering version
Convinced how people speak to AI is highly correlated to how they speak to customer support people, service staff, internet commenters, and colleagues they're annoyed with.
All the way down on page 623 of the Big Beautiful Bill: $15M to establish a task force on the replacement of Direct File. That’s actually softened from the original House draft, which called for Direct File to be shut down

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well, well, well look who applied (and got rejected) to work at Column Tax: