Founder Profile
Zachary Perret
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Zachary Perret?
Zachary Perret is a founder of Plaid Inc., which was founded in 2013 with William Hockey.
- Company founded
- Plaid Inc.
- Founded
- 2013
- Co-founders
- William Hockey
Background
Zach Perret studied at Duke University and worked as a consultant at Bain & Company before co-founding Plaid in 2013.
Founding Story
Zach Perret is the co-founder and CEO of Plaid. He has led the company since 2013, through its shift from screen scraping to direct bank APIs, the abandoned $5.3 billion Visa acquisition in 2020-2021, and its growth to more than $500 million in ARR by 2025. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
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