Profile page of Magnus Hillestad
Magnus's headline: CEO and Co-founder of Sanity
Latest contributions
Sanity Is Now The First CMS to Be A Shopify Certified Plus Partner
Sanity in 2022: Transforming How Teams Work With Content - Blog post
Content in the Composable Era - Blog post
Shopify Invests in Sanity: Connecting Commerce with Content - Blog post
Structured Content 2022: Content Makes Experiences Human - Blog post
We Stand By Ukraine - Blog post
2021: A year in review - Blog post
Welcoming Carrie Hane to lead our new Content Strategy Relations team - Blog post
It takes a village: Announcing our series B - Blog post
Content Is Data - The vision for a Platform for Structured Content - Blog post
2020: In Review - Blog post
Redefining content collaboration with $9.3M in new funding - Blog post
Black Lives Matter - Blog post
COVID-19 update from the Sanity team - Blog post
We’re part of The Next Web’s TECH5 of Norway! - Blog post
Welcome our new team member: Anders! - Blog post
How to Sanity.io - our values described - Blog post
We are looking for Account Executive to drive our US sales - Blog post
Taking Sanity.io to the next level - Blog post
Our team is growing. Welcome Radhe, Jacob, Jørn and Rune! - Blog post
Welcoming our new engineering manager, Jemmima! - Blog post
About Magnus
Magnus is a recovering finance professional turned n00b developer. He started learning to code as a passion project on the side of a long standing career in private equity and consulting. He became so convinced of technology's importance to the future of work that he quit his job to pursue it in earnest. He met his co-founders Simen, Even and Øyind shortly thereafter, and the rest is history. Now, Magnus leads Sanity as a co-founder and CEO.
Drawing from his 17 years of experience counseling business executives through industry shifts and trends, he now shepherds Sanity's global customer base through the digital transformation of content.
Magnus lives in Oakland, California with his wife and two rock trolls. He loves to build random LEGO sets and make fish tacos with his kids, as well as explore the California river delta.