In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy 
About Dan Westgarth
Dan Westgarth is Chief Operating Officer at Deel, the global payroll and HR platform, which he joined in 2019 when it was a small contractor-invoicing tool and has helped scale into a business spanning more than 150 countries. He leads Deel's onboarding, customer success, payroll operations and compliance functions, and has helped integrate several acquisitions along the way. Before Deel, Westgarth held senior operating roles at Revolut, focused on global expansion and go-to-market execution. On Day One's In The Blink Of AI, he discussed the AI agent inside Deel that writes its own production code.
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- AI, Growth & Scaling, Leadership
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In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy Go straight to the good bits.
Key moments from Deel's COO on the AI Agent Writing Its Own Code.
- 0:00Cold open, the AI agent that writes its own code
- 0:46Show intro, Deel's sponsorship, and what's ahead
- 2:30What Deel actually does
- 3:14Rapid AI hot takes, finance roles, human oversight, hardware, sports, and the World Cup
- 9:29Why Deel keeps winning after seven years
- 10:00How the product evolved from contractor invoicing to a full HR platform
- 11:28What Dan looks for when hiring
- 13:06Leaving Revolut for Deel
- 14:57The YC Winter 2019 connection
- 15:49Setting targets and building momentum
In their own words.
“Around just over two thirds of all code that is committed is actually coming from AI.”
The path so far.
- Now
Chief Operating Officer · Deel
- Until 2019 · Scale-up
North America General Manager / international expansion · Revolut
- From 2020
Founder · Expansion Capital
Sources: deel.com, opensourceceo.com
Deel on Day One
Deel is one platform for payroll, HR, benefits, mobility, performance, and device management across 150+ countries.
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