Career
Koester started his career at Ventana Medical Systems, which Roche bought for $3.4 billion in 2008. [6] In 2006, Koester joined Cooley LLP as a corporate securities attorney, especially for their emerging firms and venture capital practice. [7] [8]
In 2010, he joined the cloud marketing firm Appature as its director of operations and general counsel, and in 2011, he co-founded Zaarly with Bo Fishback and Ian Hunter. [9] [10] Among the investors in Zaarly were Ashton Kutcher, Meg Whitman, CEO of eBay, and Kleiner Perkins. [11] [12] Zaarly was recognized by Fast Company as one of the Fifty Most Innovative Companies in the World.
In 2013, he co-founded Main Street Genome with Scott Case (acquired in 2015). [13] He was also appointed as the managing director of NextGen Venture Partners. [14] [15]
In 2013, Georgetown University recruited Koester as a professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. [16] [17]
In addition to his academic and entrepreneurial work, Koester founded Manuscripts, an organization supporting authors and creators through community writing and publishing programs, helping thousands complete published works. [18] He has helped thousands of individuals, with his course named 2018's Most Innovative by USASBE. [19] [20] He is also the host of The Modern Author podcast, which features conversations with authors and innovators.
His Book Creators community program has helped more than 1,500 first-time writers develop and publish their first books, and has generated more than fifty national book prize winners or finalists in 2020–2022. [21] [22] [23]
This page is based on this
Wikipedia article Text is available under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
