Product leader & angel investor

Miles Fitzgerald

I help early-stage founders build AI-first products people love to use, and I build software for a billion+ people at Microsoft 💚

Investments & advisory

I write $25k+ pre-seed and seed cheques into AI-first products, and I bring other angels in. Then I stick around: product and design reviews, your first product or design hire, and a zero-to-one product leader who has shipped at billion scale. Most angels bring a cheque. I bring fifteen years of shipping and a seat at the table.

What I look for in AI-first founders
Invested Biscuit build and run a business from a prompt
Invested Pretty Data AI revenue tools for SMB
Advised Institute for Advanced Architecture as technical specialist
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Work

Fifteen years crafting software for everyone from the Fortune 500 to folks on the subway. I still get a kick out of spotting my work in the wild.

2026Microsoft Excel: Design Director, shipping AI agents to a billion+ people and their spreadsheets
2017Microsoft Outlook: led design for mobile on iOS and Android, took it from 100M to 300M+ weekly active users around the world
2015RogerTalk: founding member of a venture-backed zero-to-one, $1M raised from Chamath Palihapitiya, grew to 100K+ users
2014Spotify: helped grow mobile to millions and usher in the black/green era, in the run-up to personalization taking it from $6B to $19B
2011The Cools: a fashion marketplace with 50K users, LVMH's Antoine Arnault advising and the fashion press watching

Things I make

Side projects that scratch an itch. Small, shipped, and occasionally useful.

BlixtSnap a Mac app for screenshots
Essential Mix a SoundCloud mixtape for makers looking to flow
NYC subway app an iOS app for the MTA, featured in The New York Times

Things I write

Occasional essays on design, teams, and why software feels the way it does.

Talks & interviews

I talk about what it takes to ship AI to a billion+ people, and what early-stage teams can steal from it. Open to conferences, podcasts, and press.

Contact

Founders first, but product and design questions are always welcome. Barcelona-based, working PST hours.