
Michael R. Bock
@michaelrbock
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co-founder @columntax. prev @waymo @pioneerdotapp @google @udacity. see my most popular tweets using this side project i made: https://t.co/fdDI6ikNJ0
San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2009
Thrilled to share we've raised $21.7m for @ColumnTax to scale up our fundamentally new tax filing product. It's been so much fun building the first-ever IRS authorized tax filing API with the amazing team here.
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Not every industry has a public leaderboard, but it's pretty cool to be able to see where we stand when the IRS publishes its report every year!.
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 š. 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
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RT @GavinNachbar: The scale of operating a tax engine continuously blows my mind. From @michaelrbockās writeup on Iris (our AI tax developā¦.
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One of the coolest things about starting Column Tax has been finding, hiring, and nurturing underrated talent. The tax software world is complex. There are very few experts who have built tax software behind the scenes before. And unlike Software Engineering hiring, you can't.
As a Founding Tax Analyst based in Kansas, Kara Molisee joined Column Tax in 2022 and has been instrumental in building scalable, behind-the-scenes processes that make filing fast and easy for our users. Last season, she helped turn a tedious verification workflow into a
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One thing that's very cool about starting a company that interacts with the government is marrying public & private datasets to learn about taxpayer psychology:.
Today is the tax filing deadline, and we're seeing the final wave is larger than last year's. Why?. 1ļøā£ Heightened uncertainty about the future of the IRS and tax policies during the season ā a reminder that policy flux in Washington impacts more than just the stock market. 2ļøā£.
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when I want to find out if a product is any good, I append "reddit" to the end of my Google search. so as a founder, nothing is more rewarding than reading positive, unsolicited reviews for your product from countless real people on reddit:.
If you want to find out what people really think, go to Reddit. Neobanks and fintech companies partner with Column Tax to bring in-app tax filing to their users ā no income limits, no hidden fees, no surprise upsells. Just a simple, accurate, and fast way to file taxes directly
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