Nathan Fray My path to product took a 15 year detour through the music industry, which turned out to be great training ground. I co-founded United Pursuit Records and grew it from scratch to over $1M/year in catalog revenue. I owned strategy and operations end to end: negotiating deals, running releases and distribution, managing content production, running events, and keeping the whole thing financially sane. I also helped build systems it ran on: a royalties, a direct-to-fan subscription before Patreon existed (2,000 members at $10/month), and a 50,000-contact fan CRM. In 2023, I moved into software product management at Gloo, where I helped take the company's first fintech product, a grantmaking platform for milestone-based distributions and impact reporting, from market discovery through launch. I worked across discovery, UX, and delivery with engineering, design, finance, and compliance. Now the two threads have converged: I'm building Prospect.art, an artist-patronage platform...Next.js and Postgres, Stripe Connect and ACH payments, and an internal ledger reconciled against Mercury as the financial source of truth. First artists are live. I build to think. Full-stack prototypes are how I
Co-Founder and Head of Product
Product Manager
On Deck Fellow
Bachelors, Business
