Pierson Krass

Cofounder, Stay AI

Search every verified Pierson Krass interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Pierson Krass, co-founder and CMO of Stay AI, discussed the company's background and growth in a February 2023 interview. He stated that he began his e-commerce career at age 15 and spent 16 years in the field, including co-founding the agency Lunar Solar Group with Gina Perrelli, which he said grew from nothing to 80 full-time employees and about 100 clients over four years. Krass also mentioned that he and Perrelli previously built a Shopify ecosystem survey tool called No Commerce, which they exited to We Commerce in spring 2022, before founding Stay AI in fall 2021 and launching it in March 2022. Krass said Stay AI, which provides subscription management tools for Shopify merchants, had about 100 merchants live on the platform and over 40 full-time team members at the time of the interview. He noted that the company had raised multiple funding rounds from investors including York IE, and was approaching a Series A in Q1 2023. Krass expressed that the team chose to work with York IE because they lacked B2B SaaS expertise on their cap table and were interested in York's associated service groups to help professionalize the business ahead of its next growth phase.