Danny Leffel

CEO, Crew

Danny Leffel is currently the CEO & co-founder of Crew, a messaging and productivity app designed for mobile workforces. He previously founded Yardsellr, a service that operated on top of Facebook and Twitter to augment these services and provide the marketplace-specific functionality so that items could be bought and sold in the social feeds of users. During his time as the CEO at Yardsellr, Danny raised $16M from Tiger Global, Accel Partners and Harrison Metal and helped the company grow to 50 employees. Prior to Yardsellr, he co-founded InGameNow, and served as the VP of Business Development at VideoSurf, a computer-vision technology company turned video search engine that Microsoft acquired in 2011 for $100M. From 2004 to 2007, Danny served as the manager at eBay Business. Danny graduated from Trinity University in 1997.

Articles by Danny Leffel

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) for Early Stage Companies

In our latest session from the Mucker Growth Series featuring Ethan Smith from Graphite, we explored AEO, a significant new approach for optimizing visibility in AI-driven search, particularly relevant as...

Startup Guide to AI Visibility: Be the Brand ChatGPT Recommends

Introduction Today, users aren’t just searching on Google. They’re asking ChatGPT, Claude, Google’s Gemini, Perplexity, and other AI systems for advice. AI visibility is the new frontier of brand awareness....

Practical Uses of AI & Automation for Startup Operations

In a recent Mucker Growth Series session, we invited Rock Vitale, Founder & CEO of Easie, to share how he’s helped early-stage teams move from manual, fragmented workflows to streamlined,...

2025 New York Tech Week Recap Of Mucker Sessions

Last week during New York Tech Week 2025, we joined more than 1,000 events hosted by founders, investors, and VCs. This post is a full Mucker recap of the three...

How to Build a Customer Support Function for Startups Using AI Tools with Alex Velinov

Delivering high-quality customer support can be one of the most resource-draining parts of a startup. The good news: we’re at a turning point where founders can use AI tools to...

Zero → 100: The Exact Steps We Took to Close Our First 100 Paying Customers

Going from zero customers to 100 in just four months sounds impossible—unless you’re a founder willing to roll up your sleeves and hustle relentlessly. I’m Gaurav Bhattacharya, co-founder of Jeeva.ai,...