Zeb Evans

Zeb Evans possesses a highly resilient entrepreneurial background, famously shaped by surviving three near-death experiences (including a severe jet-ski accident and a home invasion). A dropout from Virginia Tech, his early background involved bootstrapping multiple ventures, including a social media automation firm called Fast Followerz. This deep, highly aggressive background in bootstrapping digital startups provided the exact operational grit required to self-fund and rapidly scale ClickUp.

Zeb Evans is an American serial entrepreneur, technology visionary, and business executive who founded ClickUp in 2017 and serves as its CEO. Born and raised in North Carolina, Evans demonstrated entrepreneurial ambition from childhood, launching multiple online businesses in high school and college. While attending Virginia Tech, a severe medical emergency and near-fatal home invasion profoundly altered his perspective on mortality, instilling an intense sense of urgency to maximize every day. Prior to ClickUp, Evans founded FastPayroll, an online payroll and HR software company. Frustrated by the dozen disconnected tools his team had to use, Evans shut down FastPayroll to build ClickUp. Bootstrapping the company in San Diego, Evans drove ClickUp's rapid rise into a $4.0 billion unicorn serving over 10 million users, championing the mission to 'Save 1 day every week'.