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Patrick Monnot

About

Me, in ten seconds

  1. 2011–16

    Engineering physics

    Polytechnique Montréal, with an exchange at Chalmers in Sweden.

  2. 2016–20

    Consulting

    McKinsey in Montréal, then Fuel by McKinsey in San Francisco from 2018, advising startups and VCs on go-to-market and growth.

  3. 2020–22

    Product

    Zinier, SF. Business operations & strategy first, then Director of Product for a field-service platform.

  4. 2022–

    Founder

    Pod, founded in San Francisco and run from Montréal since 2024, coming home after seven years in the Bay. Pod was acquired by Backstory.ai: that story is coming to the project pages. Since 2025, also co-owner and board member at Priveo Santé.

Line-drawn portrait of Patrick Monnot

Now

Building pod, agent workflows for revenue teams. Exploring harness engineering for agent teams, an idea-validation website factory.

Off-screen

Endurance sport, mostly cycling and running, plus scuba diving. Travel: more than 45 countries so far. Woodworking and horseback expeditions fill the rest.