Gordon Hempton

Gordon Hempton

CEO at Specset
Seattle, Washington, United States

Gordon Hempton is CEO at Specset, automating construction workflows. He is also co-founder at Spot. He previously co-founded and served as CTO at Outreach, and co-founded GroupTalent and Team Apart. Earlier in his career, he was a software development engineer at Microsoft.

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Gordon Hempton (Co-Founder & CEO at Spot.xyz) founder lessons from Outreach to Spot, establishing culture, and remote work

Gordon co-founded Outreach in 2013. Now a multi-billion, 1000+ employee company, he's reached rare air. But he's starting again with Spot.xyz... all the way back to the ground flood. That means writing code, recruiting, and establishing a culture from the ground-up. Why would he do it again? Hear his founder lessons on this episode of The Built in Seattle Podcast.

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  • Specset CEO 2025–present · current
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    Spot Co-Founder 2020–present · current
  • Outreach logo
    Outreach Executive Officer, Director 2017–2021, Co-Founder & CTO 2013–2019 · past

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