Sunset exists to give founders the

freedom to find what's next

We're funded by industry leading investors

Sunset is built with the trust of world-class founders and leaders to make the startup ecosystem a better place.
Ryan Hoover
Founder
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ProductHunt
Codie Sanchez
Founder
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Contrarian Thinking
Lenny Rachitzsky
Founder
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Lenny's Podcast
Hiten Shah
Founder
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Nira
Sahil Lavingia
Founder
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Gumroad
Justin Mares
Founder
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Truemed
Steph Smith
Podcast Host
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a16z
Roger Lee
Founder
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Human Interest
Linda Xie
Founder
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Bountycaster
Joel Wishkovsky
Founder
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Climate Draft
Jacob Eiting
Founder
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RevenueCat
Nick Abouzeid
Founder
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Rivet
Hari Raghavan
Founder
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Autograph
Julia Lipton
Founder
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Awesome People
Chris Hutchins
Founder
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All The Hacks

Why we exist

Sunset was born from a place of personal experience and pain. We exist to help founders in the same position we were in a few years ago.

Shutting down my company wrecked me.

I went through Y Combinator in 2018.

I had visions of running trillion-dollar startups while surfing into the sunset with Zuck.

Over 4 years, I had built two startups. I sold one but had to shut down the other.

After finally calling it quits, I was burnt out and just wanted a clean break. Instead, what I got was a metric ton of the world’s worst chores. Another email to my lawyers, doc to sign, government to pay, service to cancel, asset to liquidate, tax form to file.

All I wanted was closure…

In the end, the dissolution process took over 7 months and thousands of dollars (not to mention the few thousand I had to pay out of pocket).

I sat with this pain and frustration for a while. At one of the lowest points in my life, this dissolution process kept knocking me down further.

That's why I started this business — I want to help founders in the same position I was in. I want to give founders freedom from the nagging, gnawing, and relentless stress of dissolving a company.

I want to give you the freedom to move on with your life.

Brendan Mahony
Founder & CEO