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title: Ben Tossell
description: British entrepreneur; founder of Ben's Bites AI newsletter, MakerPad (acq. Zapier), and Ben's Bites Fund
category: People
---

# Ben Tossell

![Ben Tossell](https://github.com/bentossell.png)

**Ben Tossell** is a British entrepreneur, investor, and writer. He is the founder of **Ben's Bites**, a 7-figure AI newsletter business, the creator of **MakerPad** (a no-code education platform acquired by Zapier), and a venture investor through **Ben's Bites Fund**. He is active on X as [@bentossell](https://x.com/bentossell) with 181,000+ followers.

## Career

Tossell studied International Business with Mandarin at university before moving into social media advertising. He joined **Product Hunt** in 2015 as one of the first hires, running community and launches, where he caught the "builder bug." He went on to build 50+ products with no-code tools, then launched **newCo** and joined Earnest Capital as Platform lead (2018).

He co-founded **BotList** in 2016 and subsequently built **MakerPad** — a platform teaching no-code product development — which **Zapier acquired**.

In late 2022, shortly after ChatGPT launched, Tossell launched **Ben's Bites**, a daily AI newsletter. The business reached seven figures in under a year — more revenue than his entire Makerpad exit. He also scouts for a16z and runs two funds of his own (backed by Sequoia, O'Shaughnessy Ventures, Ron Conway, Ryan Hoover, and Thrive), having invested in companies including Supabase, FlutterFlow, Pika Labs, Gamma, Etched, and SF Compute.

## Connection to Jan

In May 2025, Ben Tossell expressed interest in investing in [[uithub]]. Jan was pursuing a pre-seed raise for uithub at the time, and Ben was a prospective backer.

## See Also

- [[Jan_Wilmake]]
- [[uithub]]
- [[Ryan_Hoover]]
- [[Product_Hunt]]