Zeb Evans at a glance
Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
Role | Founder and CEO of ClickUp (ClickUp) |
Age | 32 in November 2021 (Latka) |
Education | Enrolled at Virginia Tech in 2008; left to focus on his business (Contrary Research) |
Before ClickUp | Founded Fast Followerz, social media automation for artists and influencers (Contrary Research) |
Co-founder | Alex Yurkowski, ClickUp’s CTO |
Honors | EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2021, San Diego (ClickUp) |
Lives | San Diego (X) |
Public profiles | X @DJ_CURFEW; LinkedIn /in/zebevansclickup |
ClickUp CEO email address: how to reach Zeb Evans
Zeb Evans doesn’t publish an email address. His X and LinkedIn profiles and his bio on ClickUp’s site list none (checked Nov 2, 2026). Even ClickUp staff can’t simply message him: since early 2026 they must first work through an AI agent trained to stand in for him (Fortune). For the company, ClickUp’s general inbox is support@clickup.com (ClickUp).
Channel | Address | Note |
|---|---|---|
X | Bio: “Founder & CEO @ClickUp”; 229,000 followers (Nov 2, 2026) | |
His profile | ||
ClickUp, support | support@clickup.com | |
ClickUp, sales | sales@clickup.com |
ClickUp email address pattern
ClickUp staff mostly use {f}{last}@clickup.com, according to LeadIQ (LeadIQ); Prospeo’s data favors {first}{last}@ (Prospeo).
Format | Example (fictional name: Maya Chen) | Share of known addresses | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
{f}{last}@clickup.com | mchen@clickup.com | 82% (LeadIQ); 26.5% (Prospeo) | Current, most common |
{first}{last}@clickup.com | mayachen@clickup.com | 65.1% (Prospeo) | Common in Prospeo’s data |
{first}@clickup.com | maya@clickup.com | 14% (LeadIQ) | Less common |
{first}.{last}@clickup.com | maya.chen@clickup.com | 3% (LeadIQ); 4.6% (Prospeo) | Rare |
Before emailing any pattern-based address, run it through a verifier: a bounce hurts deliverability for every later send. All ClickUp patterns, domains and official inboxes are on the ClickUp email format page.
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Career timeline
Date | Milestone | Source |
|---|---|---|
May 21, 2026 | Cuts 22% of ClickUp’s staff and introduces million-dollar salary bands | |
Jan 2026 | Takes ClickUp “all in on agents” | |
Nov 4, 2025 | Launches ClickUp 4.0; says an IPO is planned within two years | |
Sep 2025 | ClickUp passes $300M in annual recurring revenue | |
Jul 4, 2023 | Cuts 10% of staff | |
Oct 27, 2021 | Raises $400M at a $4B valuation | |
Aug 6, 2021 | Named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year, San Diego | |
Dec 15, 2020 | Raises $100M at a $1B valuation | |
Jun 24, 2020 | Takes ClickUp’s first outside capital, $35M | |
2017 | Starts ClickUp with Alex Yurkowski | |
After 2011 | Founds Fast Followerz | |
2008 | Enrolls at Virginia Tech |
From a DJ to a $4 billion valuation
Evans started a mobile DJ company in high school and went to Virginia Tech in 2008 to study music production and artist management. After a near-death experience in 2011, when a gun was pointed at his head, he dropped out to focus on his business and went on to found Fast Followerz, which sold social media automation tools to artists and influencers (Contrary Research). His X handle, @DJ_CURFEW, dates from those years.
ClickUp grew out of frustration with the tools his team used: “I could not help but think: these things are not making us more productive - they’re actually wasting time. And that’s where the idea for ClickUp was born.” (Diginomica) It was bootstrapped until 2020 and reached close to $10 million in annual recurring revenue without spending much on marketing (The Split).
Then the money came fast: $35 million in June 2020 (TechCrunch), $100 million at $1 billion that December (TechCrunch) and $400 million at $4 billion in October 2021 (ClickUp). ClickUp cut 10% of staff in 2023 (TechCrunch), passed $300 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025 (ClickUp), and in May 2026 Evans cut 22% more to rebuild the company around AI agents (X).
In his own words
“We were bootstrapped until 2020.”
— The Split, September 19, 2024 (The Split)
“Today we reduced headcount by 22%. The business is the strongest it’s ever been.”
— Post on X, May 21, 2026 (X)
“The common narrative is that AI makes everyone more productive. It doesn’t.”
— Same post, explaining the “100x org” (X)
“We made the difficult decision to reduce the size of our workforce, primarily to move a portion of our support roles to lower-cost regions.”
— On the 2023 layoffs, July 4, 2023 (TechCrunch)
ClickUp’s leadership team
Person | Role | Source |
|---|---|---|
Zeb Evans | Founder and CEO | |
Alex Yurkowski | Co-founder; chief technology officer | |
Gaurav Agarwal | Chief operating officer; runs revenue operations, nearly 700 people | |
Jay Hack | Head of AI; founder of Codegen, acquired in 2025 | |
David Sacks | Director; Craft Ventures, which led the Series A | |
Tyson Baber | Director; Georgian, which led the Series B |
Full company profile, including revenue and valuation: ClickUp in 2026: revenue, valuation, funding, CEO.
