Russ Heddleston
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Russ Heddleston is a founder at Distill and serves as its CEO. Before Distill, he founded DocSend and sold it for $165 million after raising $15 million and scaling it past $100 million in ARR. Earlier in his career, he started and sold the HR tech startup Pursuit to Meta. He is known for building and selling DocSend and Pursuit before starting Distill.
Updated 9 September 2026
Public sources: distill.com
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