I’m an entrepreneur doing everything I can to stay out of the cubicle. I love sports (especially soccer), food and traveling, or any way to combine the three. In 2005, I bought ExchangeHut.com, after my freshman year at the University of Wisconsin, and transformed it from a local tickets and textbooks trading site with under 2,000 users to a profitable national business with over 125,000 users by the time I was a senior, leading to its acquisition by a publicly traded company in 2008.
In 2008, during my 2nd senior year, I teamed up with Jesse Davis to co-found Entrustet.com. Entrustet helps people access, transfer and delete online accounts after someone dies. We’ve been featured in the NY Times, TechCrunch, Mashable, Forbes, BBC and hundreds of others. You can find out more about Entrustet over on our company blog.
I am very interested in showing people that entrepreneurship is a potential choice for young people and that college can be the best time to start a company. I enjoy talking with people to try to give them the entrepreneurial push toward either starting a company or working for a startup. In May 2009, I founded Capital Entrepreneurs to bring the burgeoning startup community in Madison closer together. I’m also the cofounder of Madison’s Forward Technology Conference, a tech conference for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs.
In November 2010, I was part of the first class of Start-Up Chile entrepreneurs and live in Santiago, Chile for six months. It was a great experience and I wrote a ton of posts about my time in the program.
For more info about what I’ve been up to for the last ten years, check out this post. You can follow me on Twitter, check out my Tumblog, find me on LinkedIn or send me a note through on my contact page.
