Raycast CEO Thomas Paul Mann: Email Address, LinkedIn and Bio (2026)

Thomas Paul Mann at a glance

Raycast CEO email address: how to reach Thomas Paul Mann

Mann publishes his address himself: his website, thomaspaulmann.com, ends with “Feel free to say hello” and a link to hello@thomaspaulmann.com. In Raycast’s first weeks he also gave out thomas@raycast.app, in a March 2020 Hacker News thread (Hacker News), on raycast.app, an earlier Raycast domain that now forwards to raycast.com. Raycast staff use their first name at raycast.com: {first}@raycast.com, such as maya@raycast.com for a fictional Maya Chen. People who go by a short name use that, so a Daniel may be dan@.

He posts most on X and LinkedIn, mainly about Raycast and Glaze launches.

Raycast email address pattern

Raycast staff use their first name at raycast.com: {first}@raycast.com, such as maya@raycast.com for a fictional Maya Chen. People who go by a short name use that, so a Daniel may be dan@.

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Career timeline

How Thomas Paul Mann built Raycast

Mann grew up in Germany and worked as a mobile engineer at German companies before moving to London for Facebook, where he built augmented reality tools. There he met Petr Nikolaev: “We were on the same team, shared our passion for productivity tools, and were both frustrated with how clunky existing tools felt. Too many clicks, too little speed” (Ness Labs).

As a side project they built a Mac menu-bar app for Facebook’s internal issue tracker. They left to turn the idea into a company in January 2020, went through Y Combinator in Mountain View, which he calls “probably the most productive time in my life” (Changelog), and launched a public beta that October.

As CEO he has kept Raycast small and remote: about 40 people in 17 countries, paid the same salary for a role wherever they live (Raycast), and engineers who push to the main branch without mandatory code review (Raycast). He wrote most of the company’s big launch posts himself, from the Series B to Raycast 2.0.

Thomas Paul Mann’s age and net worth

Companies House, the UK company register, lists Mann’s birth date as January 1989, so he is 37. No estimate of his net worth has been published: Raycast is private and has never disclosed a valuation, and the founders’ stakes are held in its US parent company.

Petr Nikolaev, Raycast’s co-founder

Petr Nikolaev, CTO, born in November 1989, holds British and Russian nationality. He played online poker as a student, started as a junior Flash developer at a small agency, then worked at VK and at Facebook, on Spark AR and WhatsApp, where he moved to macOS development (Console). He wrote Raycast’s iPhone launch post in 2025.

In his own words

“We started Raycast to solve our own problem as developers.”

— Thomas Paul Mann, September 25, 2024 (TechCrunch)

“Since day one, everybody who works at Raycast builds for himself… Which is one of our secret superpowers.”

— Thomas Paul Mann, April 17, 2024

“It’s time that this productivity boost is unleashed to all Windows users as well. 2025 will be big!”

— Thomas Paul Mann, September 25, 2024

“We can’t subsidize it the way the big model labs can, and it leaves less money for building Raycast itself.”

— Thomas Paul Mann, on AI costs, September 10, 2026 (Raycast)

“The two types of engineers … who benefit the most from AI are, one, the very senior person, and two, the very junior person.”

— Thomas Paul Mann, July 2026 (Platformer)

Raycast’s leadership

Raycast 2.0, Glaze and the new AI plans are covered on the Raycast company profile; Mann wrote the 2.0 announcement (Raycast).