Sarah Austin (entrepreneur)

Last updated

Sarah Austin
SarahAustin (cropped).png
Austin in 2021
Born
Sarah Maria Austin

January 1986 (1986-01) (age 38)
Rogers, Arkansas, U.S.
Other namesSarah Meyers
Years active2006–present
Known for Lifecasting, video journalism
Notable workQGlobe, Broad Listening
Website www.sarahaustin.com

Sarah Maria Austin [1] (b. January 1986) is an American author and tech entrepreneur. She is the CMO and co-founder of metaverse funding platform, QGlobe, and former CEO at Broad Listening, an artificial emotional intelligence agent. [2] She is the chairperson of the board of directors at Coding FTW, a nonprofit organization that promotes diversity and equal rights in the technology sector. [3] [4]

Contents

Early life and education

As a young child, Austin moved with parents from Rogers, Arkansas to Tiburon, California. [5] In the ninth grade, Austin joined a leadership development and mentorship program called Summer Search. [6] While in Summer Search, she studied New Media at Stanford University and also attended Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. [5] In 2004, she graduated from Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California. [7] [8]

Upon returning to California, Austin attended film and broadcast classes at San Francisco State University, [9] later relocating to Parsons The New School for Design in New York City. [10] In 2010, she was a Dominican University of California business management student. [5] [8]

Career

Entrepreneurship

Austin is the founder of Coding FTW, a non-profit organization that provides scholarships for women in computer programming and technology. [11] Austin was the first marketing hire at Kava, a decentralized finance platform, serving as its CMO. [12] She held roles in content marketing at SAP, Oracle, and Ford Motor including its campaigns around the Consumer Electronics Show and the US launch of the Ford Fiesta. [13]

Media

Austin began her career as a tech-news producer and DJ for three years at UC Berkeley’s radio station, KALX. [14] [15] She moved into video with news segments for D7TV's Story Today and created her own D7TV series, Party Crashers, in which she filmed Silicon Valley parties. [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22]

During the spring of 2007, she was chosen as a participant in the closed beta test of Justin.tv and lifecasted for them. [14] [23]

Pop17

Pop17
Presentation
Hosted bySarah Austin
GenreTechnology culture news
LanguageEnglish
Production
Picture format HDTV
Publication
Original releaseApril 1, 2008 –
November 29, 2015
Provider mevio, YouTube, Justin.tv, Livestream
Austin at Intel's Social Media in June 2008 Sarah Austin at the Intel Insider Kickoff 2008.jpg
Austin at Intel's Social Media in June 2008

After extensive tests through the winter of 2007-08 under the name PopSnap, [17] Austin launched a web series and blog called Pop17 in March 2008. [20] Pop17 features interviews with tech-oriented business owners and Internet personalities at tech-related events and parties. [24] It also includes commentary and news on technology and business topics; Rocketboom and Mekanism contributed to the production of the show in 2008 and 2010. [20] [25] [26] Contributors to Pop17 include Jesse Draper and Caitlin Hill. [27] [28]

Start-Ups: Silicon Valley

Austin was featured as one of the main cast members on Start-Ups: Silicon Valley , a reality TV show that aired on Bravo, that followed the lives of six people who worked for startup companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. On the show, Austin lives at the Four Seasons Silicon Valley as entrepreneur in residence, producing marketing videos for them on Pop17. [29] [30] [31] [32]

Other media

In late 2011, Austin became a correspondent for TV networks such as Fox and Logo. She worked as an online personality for The X Factor and The X Factor Pepsi Live Preshow, as well as casting their unscripted home-viewing parties via Skype. [33] She hosted and co-produced the San Francisco edition of VidBlogger Nation; a Comcast OnDemand TV network with each host sharing stories of people, places and events in their city. [34] She also produces tech reports for Logo's NewNowNext. [35] Austin has been a correspondent for Better, [3] [36] where she explained topics and trends regarding social media. Since late 2010, Austin contributes articles and Pop17 episodes to Forbes magazine. [37]

Recognition

At age 25, Austin was named to Forbes 30 under 30 in media. [38] Ignite Social Media included her in their ranking of five women covering New Media on the Internet. [39] In 2008, she was named one of the 50 most influential female bloggers by North X East. [40] [41] Also in 2008, she appeared on Donny Deutsch's The Big Idea. [42]

In the first edition of Dan Schawbel's' book Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, Austin and Pop17 were profiled in a chapter of "success stories". [39] She was featured on the front cover of the May 2009 issue of Personal Branding magazine. [43] In 2010, she was selected as one of Vanity Fair's "America's Tweethearts". [44]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marc Andreessen</span> American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer (born 1971)

Marc Lowell Andreessen is an American businessman and former software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser with a graphical user interface; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He co-founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard; he also co-founded Ning, a company that provides a platform for social networking websites. He is an inductee in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame. Andreessen's net worth is estimated at $1.7 billion.

Benchmark is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Bob Kagle, Bruce Dunlevie, Andy Rachleff, Kevin Harvey, and Val Vaden.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robert Scoble</span> American blogger, technical evangelist, and author

Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. Scoble is best known for his blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technology evangelist at Microsoft. He later worked for Fast Company as a video blogger, and then Rackspace and the Rackspace-sponsored community site Building 43 promoting breakthrough technology and startups.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur)</span> American technology entrepreneur

Evan Clark "Ev" Williams is an American billionaire technology entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Twitter, and was its CEO from 2008 to 2010, and a member of its board from 2007 to 2019. He founded Blogger and Medium. In 2014, he co-founded the venture capital firm Obvious Ventures. As of February 2022, his net worth is estimated at US$2.1 billion.

Rocketboom was a daily vlog produced by Andrew Baron in the format of a newscast with a comedic slant. Since 2004 Rocketboom has presented oddities, vlog excerpts, social and political commentary. The Rocketboom weblog and Apollo Pony featured supplemental material unfit for the vlog.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andrew Baron</span> American vlogger

Andrew Michael Baron is the founder of Rocketboom, video aggregator Magma, the non-profit Humanwire, and the co-founder of Know Your Meme. Baron has taught undergraduate and graduate classes at Parsons School of Design and was teaching IDTech at M.I.T. when he came up with the idea for Rocketboom.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paul Bradley Carr</span> British writer, journalist & commentator (born 1979)

Paul Bradley Carr is a British writer, journalist and commentator, based in San Francisco. He has also—as he wrote on his official website—"edited various publications and founded numerous businesses with varying degrees of abysmal failure."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ben Way</span>

Ben Way is a serial entrepreneur and best selling author best known for his appearance on Secret Millionaire, The Startup Kids and as a cast member on Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, he started his first company at the age of 15. He went on to raise £25 million in his teens making him one of the first dot com millionaires.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michael Arrington</span> Founder and former co-editor of TechCrunch

J. Michael Arrington is the American founder and former co-editor of TechCrunch, a blog covering the Silicon Valley technology start-up communities and the wider technology field in America and elsewhere. Magazines such as Wired and Forbes have named Arrington one of the most powerful people on the Internet. In 2008, he was selected by TIME Magazine as one of the most influential people in the world.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sarah Lacy</span> American technology journalist and author

Sarah Ruth Lacy is an American technology journalist and author.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mark Papermaster</span> American business executive (born 1961)

Mark D. Papermaster is an American business executive who is the chief technology officer (CTO) and executive vice president for technology and engineering at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). On January 25, 2019 he was promoted to AMD's Executive Vice President.

<i>Start-Ups: Silicon Valley</i> 2012 American TV series or program

Start-Ups: Silicon Valley is an American reality television series that aired on Bravo. The series debuted on November 5, 2012. Citing low viewership, Bravo chose not to renew the series for a second season.

Floodgate Fund is a venture capital firm based in the United States created by Mike Maples Jr. and Ann Miura-Ko. It was originally named Maples Investments, but was renamed Floodgate Fund in March 2010. It is focused on investments in technology companies in Silicon Valley.

The Crunchies was an industry award given out from 2007 to 2017 by several technology blogs to the Silicon Valley companies and venture capitalists they cover.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Viralheat</span> Subscription-based software service

Viralheat was a subscription-based software service for social media management that helps clients monitor and analyze consumer-created content. It was first released in beta in May 2009. Viralheat raised $75,000 in seed capital in December 2009 and $4.25 million of venture capital from the Mayfield Fund in 2011.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Founder Institute</span>

The Founder Institute is an American business incubator, entrepreneur training and startup launch program that was founded in Palo Alto, California in 2009. Although based in Silicon Valley, The Founder Institute maintains chapters in over 180 cities and more than 65 nations. It offers a four-month part-time program for new and early-stage entrepreneurs that helps them develop their business ideas and form a company. Among the key requirements for graduation is the creation of a fully operational company by the end of the four-month program. As of 2018, over 3,500 companies had been created from the program, which raised over $800M funding in total.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aileen Lee</span> American investor

Aileen Lee is a U.S. venture capital angel investor and co-founder of Cowboy Ventures.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Adam Lyons</span> American entrepreneur

Adam Lyons is an American entrepreneur. He founded The Zebra, an insurance comparison website and REALLY Wireless, a telecommunications company.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David Isaac Murray</span> Entrepreneur, computer scientist, and product designer

David Isaac Murray is an entrepreneur, computer scientist, and product designer best known for his appearance as one of the main cast members on Start-Ups: Silicon Valley. Originally a product manager at Google from 2006–2008, he received the Google Founders Award and EMG Award for his work on Gmail. After Google, David held several senior positions at start up companies in Silicon Valley, California. He started his company, GoalSponsors, in 2012 and eventually sold it to Doctor.com in 2014. He served as Chief Technology Officer of Doctor.com until 2019. David is currently Cofounder and President of Confirm, an HR technology company focused on performance reviews and organizational network analysis.

Kim Taylor is an American entrepreneur. She founded the online college manager company Ranku and the recruitment technology company Cluster, the latter of which she is serving as its CEO.

References

  1. ↑ Austin, Sarah. "Sarah Maria Austin on Twitter". Twitter . Retrieved September 21, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Moving forward in the metaverse — are DAOs the future of the web?". VentureBeat. January 27, 2022. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  3. 1 2 Lowe, Audra (April 28, 2009). "Hot Web Trends - From Web Girl to Twitter authorities, Better has the scoop on the latest Internet trends". BetterTV. Meredith Corporation. Retrieved December 22, 2009.
  4. ↑ Rogers, Stewart and, Wright, Travis (June 3, 2016). "Sarah Austin, A.I., and when bots start to lie — VB Engage". Venture Beat. Retrieved October 22, 2016.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. 1 2 3 Austin, Sarah (January 21, 2010). "Who I Am And Where I Came From". SarahAustin.com. Archived from the original on January 24, 2010. Retrieved December 1, 2011.
  6. ↑ Abraham, Zenophon (August 25, 2009). "Saran Austin's "Welcome Back to SF" Poken party Monday night!". San Francisco Chronicle . Retrieved October 11, 2012.
  7. ↑ DuPont, Dave (October 23, 2009). "Reed Schools & More, Belvedere & Tiburon Kids with Books".
  8. 1 2 Austin, Sarah. "Sarah Marie Austin". LinkedIn.com. Retrieved October 30, 2010.
  9. ↑ Lindahl, Alex (November 24, 2008). "Sarah Austin Tracks Online Micro-Celebrities on Pop17". CollegeMogul.com.
  10. ↑ Austin, Sarah (September 12, 2008). "Me at Parsons". sarahmeyers.wordpress.com.
  11. ↑ "Why Every Business Should Run Internal Hackathons". Forbes. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  12. ↑ "Why Consumer Preferences Are Shaping The Future Of The Digital Dollar According To Sarah Austin". Forbes. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  13. ↑ "Sarah Austin, From Forbes "30 under 30" to Closing the Gender Gap in Tech". Impact Wealth. March 24, 2022. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  14. 1 2 Berlind, David (October 25, 2007). "Sarah Meyers TV: Where the world is headed?". Testbed. ZDNet. Archived from the original on February 7, 2009. Retrieved December 22, 2009.
  15. ↑ "West, Jackson. NewTeeVee: "Sarah Meyers on Broadcasting Web Video". Archived from the original on December 30, 2007. Retrieved December 20, 2007.
  16. ↑ Douglas, Nick. Valleywag: "The vidding crashers: August Capital boots vloggers from TechCrunch party," August 21, 2006.
  17. 1 2 Arrington, Michael. "PopSnap: Sarah Meyers' Live Online TV Show". TechCrunch. Retrieved December 21, 2009.
  18. ↑ Douglas, Nick (August 26, 2006). "The vidding crashers: August Capital boots vloggers from TechCrunch party". Gawker. Retrieved July 15, 2011.
  19. ↑ Denton, Nick (December 11, 2006). "2 minutes later, a helicopter whisked Semel to safety". Gawker. Retrieved July 15, 2011.
  20. 1 2 3 Schonfeld, Erick (February 26, 2008). "Pop17 With Sarah Meyers Goes Live—A Daily Web Video Show Exploring Micro-Celebrities". TechCrunch. Retrieved December 21, 2009.
  21. ↑ "Sarah Austin - Bio". Bravo Media LLC. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
  22. ↑ Luschek, Mathew (October 9, 2012). "'Silicon Valley' Reality Show to Air Nov. 5". KNTV . Retrieved October 11, 2012.
  23. ↑ Arrington, Michael (October 15, 2007). "Justin.TV Lifecasters Not Welcome Everywhere (like movie theaters)". TechCrunch. Retrieved December 21, 2009.
  24. ↑ Salkin, Allen. "Night Life Programmed," The New York Times, August 3, 2008.
  25. ↑ Exclusive: Rocketboom Blasts Off Sarah Meyer's Pop17 Video Show...The Roots of Beet.TV Explored in this Mini-Doc!
  26. ↑ Borden, Mark (May 1, 2010). "Repeat Offenders - The Mekanism Guarantee: They Engineer Virality". Fast Company (145). Retrieved July 22, 2010.
  27. ↑ Hill, Caitlin (October 16, 2010). "Mad Men Fashion". Pop17. Retrieved August 19, 2011.
  28. ↑ Draper, Jesse (September 21, 2010). "7 Reasons Pro Starbucks as You Become an Entrepreneur". Pop17. Retrieved August 19, 2011.
  29. ↑ Shih, Gary (November 6, 2012). "Amid catcalls, Silicon Valley gets its reality TV treatment". Reuters. Retrieved November 17, 2012.
  30. ↑ Shatkin, Elina (November 5, 2012). "Silicon vs. Silicone: A Show So Stupid it Makes Real Housewives Look Smart". Los Angeles Magazine. Retrieved November 17, 2012.
  31. ↑ Perkett, Christine (November 6, 2012). "Silicon Valley: Startups - "Bravo" for Women in Tech? I Don't Think So". Forbes. Retrieved November 17, 2012.
  32. ↑ McCarthy, Megan (November 6, 2012). "Bravo's new startup show needs less Ways, more means". Reuters. Archived from the original on November 6, 2012. Retrieved November 17, 2012.
  33. ↑ The X Factor
  34. ↑ VidBlogger Nation
  35. ↑ Pulos, Will. "Sarah Austin Talks Bond Gadgets". NewNowNext, November 22, 2011.
  36. ↑ Lowe, Audra (July 17, 2009). "Tweet for Savings". BetterTV. Meredith Corporation. Retrieved December 22, 2009.
  37. ↑ Austin, Sarah (August 26, 2010). "The Best Tech For College". Forbes. Archived from the original on August 28, 2010.
  38. ↑ "30 Under 30: Media". Forbes. Retrieved April 1, 2022.
  39. 1 2 Schawbel, Dan. Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success. Kaplan Publishing, 2009.
  40. ↑ "NxE's Fifty Most Influential Female Bloggers". Archived from the original on December 8, 2011. Retrieved December 7, 2011.
  41. ↑ Cohen, Joshua. "Playboy's Hottest Bloggers?", July 18, 2008.
  42. ↑ CNBC: Donny Deutsch's The Big Idea, January 2008 on YouTube.
  43. ↑ Personal Branding, May 2009.
  44. ↑ Grigoriadis, Vanessa. "America's Tweethearts". Vanity Fair, February 2010. Archived October 9, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
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.