Contributors

Marcus Hadley is a senior writer at Operator Press, where he covers founders and the people building small, distributed software companies. His work focuses on how operator-class teams allocate attention — what they hire for, what they refuse to do, and what they ship in spite of their headcount.

Petra Liang is a staff writer at Operator Press, covering the technical side of the founder economy. Her beat is the architecture of small software companies — how they stitch their stacks together, where they lean on the platforms they sell to, and how the design choices made by a five-person team end up shaping the products operators eventually ship.

The Editorial Team byline is used for pieces that are reported and written by more than one person on staff. It covers our weekly listicles, our landscape surveys of small founder-led companies, and the occasional unsigned opinion essay where the position belongs to the publication rather than to any single writer.

Joon Park is a contributor at Operator Press, leading the publication's coverage of founders and software companies in Southeast Asia. He reports from Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Singapore, Manila, and Ho Chi Minh City, and pays particular attention to the operators who have chosen to base their companies in the region for reasons beyond cost.