Drew Gordillo Corgi

Who they are

Drew Gordillo is an internship program designer at Corgi — a University of Utah senior who co-built Corgi's internship-to-full-time pipeline with the university while the company was still seed-stage.

Person

Drew is a senior undergraduate at the University of Utah who joined Corgi in 2025, when the company had roughly 8 employees and $1.2M in revenue — early enough to shape the culture from scratch. His role isn't a conventional internship: he designed and leads the program itself, partnering with the university to build a structured internship-to-full-time pipeline. The program runs through Beagle, a Corgi subsidiary, and appears to be one of the first formal talent structures the company has put in place. Possibly — he was brought in precisely because Corgi's founders wanted someone close to the university talent pool to own that recruiting relationship directly. He has no public writing presence, so his influence shows up in what he builds, not what he publishes.

Company

Corgi's most recent move, announced in June 2026, is a plan to open its regulatory and claims infrastructure to rival insurance carriers — a bold posture for a two-year-old company that only received its full-stack carrier license in July 2025. That announcement came on the back of two rapid funding rounds: a $160M Series B led by TCV on May 6, 2026, followed just three weeks later by a $106M Series B1 that doubled the valuation to $2.6B, bringing total funding to $378M. The company hit profitability in April 2026 and counts Deel and Artisan among its customers. Founded in 2024 by Nico Laqua and Emily Yuan — both former co-founders of Basket Entertainment — Corgi is now expanding into trucking, small business, and sports insurance categories.

Market

Corgi competes in AI-native commercial insurance targeting B2B SaaS and venture-backed startups, going head-to-head with Vouch, Coalition, and At-Bay. Vouch is its most direct rival — also Y Combinator-backed and having made the same transition from managing general agent to licensed carrier. The broader insurtech sector is seeing rapid valuation inflation and consolidation, driven by investor appetite for AI-native underwriting and claims platforms in a historically capital-intensive industry.

Network

No direct relationship edges are available for Drew. His known institutional connections run through the University of Utah, which co-designed the internship program with him, and Corgi's leadership — CEO Nico Laqua, co-founder Emily Yuan, and head of product Michael Davis.

Nico Laqua· CEO and co-founder, Corgi
Emily Yuan· Co-founder, Corgi
Michael Davis· Head of Product, Corgi

How they likely show up

Designed a structured internship program while still an undergraduate himself → comfortable owning projects well above his formal seniority level.
Joined a ~8-person seed-stage company as a program designer, not a standard intern → drawn to ambiguous, build-it-yourself roles rather than defined tracks.
No public writing presence → influence likely shows up through internal execution and relationship-building, not thought leadership.
Possibly — partnered directly with the University of Utah as an institutional counterpart → comfortable operating across organizational boundaries, not just inside one team.

Conversation tips

→ Ask about what it was like designing the internship program from scratch — he built the structure, not just participated in it, and that's the most distinctive thing about his role.
→ Reference the Beagle subsidiary specifically; showing you know the program runs through a distinct entity signals you've done more than skim a headline.
→ He's early in his career and not publicly opinionated yet — lead with curiosity rather than positioning; ask what he's learned, not what he thinks.

Toolbox

Openers

Open on the Beagle internship pipeline — he didn't join Corgi as an intern, he built the program itself in partnership with the University of Utah, which is an unusual thing for a senior undergrad to own.
Reference Corgi's June 2026 announcement to open its regulatory and claims infrastructure to rival carriers — it signals the company's ambitions have grown fast since he joined at the seed stage, and it's a good way to gauge how plugged in he is to the company's strategic direction.
Note the speed of Corgi's fundraising — two rounds in three weeks in May 2026, valuation doubling to $2.6B — and ask what that pace of growth has felt like from inside a team that was ~8 people not long ago.

Discovery questions

How did you structure the internship-to-full-time pipeline — what was the criteria for conversion, and did Corgi's rapid growth change those plans mid-program?
What did partnering with the University of Utah actually look like on the ground — who owned what, and how did you navigate the institutional side of that relationship?
Corgi is now expanding into trucking, small business, and sports insurance — how does that product expansion affect what you're recruiting for and training interns to do?

Avoid

Don't treat him as a passive participant in Corgi's story — he designed the program, not followed one, and framing him as 'just an intern' will land poorly.

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