Khaled Hussein

Khaled Hussein is an experienced professional with a diverse work history. Khaled is currently serving as the Co-Founder and CEO of Betterleap since February 2020. In addition, they hold the position of Chairman Of The Board at Tyltgo (YC S20) since January 2021.

Prior to that, Khaled founded and managed Stipple Ventures since October 2018. Khaled has also served as an investor at RedDoorHQ Inc. starting from August 2018 until December 2022.

Before their current roles, Khaled worked at Airbnb as the Payments Product Lead from February 2017 to July 2018. Khaled was also the Co-Founder and CTO at Tilt (acquired by Airbnb) from August 2011 to February 2017. In this role, they played a crucial role in building the foundation and strategy for a platform that processed hundreds of millions in various countries.

Khaled's earlier experiences include a role as a Product Manager at Rackspace Hosting, where they designed and built Keystone, a significant open-source identity management project for OpenStack cloud. Prior to that role, they founded and served as CEO of RiadaSoft, an offshore development house in Egypt. Khaled successfully delivered high-quality projects to clients worldwide with a small team of engineers.

Khaled Hussein's education history begins with their Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, which they obtained from 2001 to 2005. Khaled then pursued a Master's Degree in Computer Science at Virginia Tech from 2005 to 2007. After some time, in 2012, Khaled attended Y Combinator for a short period but did not specify any degree or field of study.