Dave Berner Engineering & product leader.

Co-founder of Parachute, speaker, writer & podcast host

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Now

I'm currently building Parachute, an AI-native platform for legal and professional services. We recently raised a pre-seed round and are focused on helping firms work faster without losing the human layer of their practice.

Key achievements

Building and scaling B2B and B2C SaaS platforms from zero to enterprise level

50,000+
Businesses
Scaled Kinde from zero to serving over 50,000 customers worldwide
20,000,000+
Monthly users
Grew Kinde from 0 to servicing millions of end users around the globe
~0%
Enterprise Churn
Near-zero churn on Enterprise and Scale plans at Kinde
$10.6M
Seed funding
Raised seed funding to accelerate Kinde's platform growth

Technical & product leadership

Full-stack engineering

20+ years leading teams and building B2B and B2C SaaS platforms end-to-end, from database schema to UX.

Team building

Built distributed engineering teams with async practices and delivery discipline. Experience scaling teams globally while maintaining high output.

AI innovation

Early adopter of AI in engineering and product. Introduced team-wide AI-assisted coding and prototyping AI-driven dev tools.

Enterprise sales

Comfortable in front of customers driving product strategy, sales, and adoption. Built enterprise-grade infrastructure across six regional data centers.

Latest Video

Scaling SaaS calmly — Startup Daily ▶

Scaling SaaS calmly — Startup Daily

20 Sept 2025 · guest · 28:12

Founder lessons from taking Kinde from zero to global adoption.

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