Just Go Grind #253: Ethan Austin, Chief Strategy Officer at Gig Wage and Former Managing Director at Techstars, on Fundraising, Joining an Accelerator, and His Experience as a Founder and Investor
Ethan Austin is the Chief Strategy Officer at Gig Wage, former Managing Director at the Techstars Western Union Accelerator, and the Founder of GiveForward.
Gig Wage, a company that's raised more than $10M in venture capital, is a platform designed for innovators who want a simplified way of managing contractor payments so they can recruit and retain world-class 1099 talent and power modern contractor commerce.
Some of the Topics Covered by Ethan Austin in this Episode
- What Ethan's role is at Gig Wage and what the company is doing
- Why Ethan decided to join Gig Wage
- How Ethan first got involved with startups
- Ethan's experience starting GiveForward
- How Ethan found his co-founder for GiveForward and his experience bootstrapping for 2 years
- Ethan's Techstars experience as a Founder and his fundraising experience
- Getting Naval Ravikant as an investor in 2012
- The team behind GiveForward and how Ethan built a great culture at the company
- What Ethan did to grow GiveForward in the early years and after they raised funding
- How Ethan went from GiveForward to Techstars after losing 75% of their Facebook traffic in a year
- Why Ethan took a year off after GiveForward
- What Ethan's role entailed as the Managing Director at Techstars
- The experience of going through Techstars for a founder
- How Ethan thinks about being an investor vs. running a company
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