Best-selling author Whitney Johnson (“Disrupt Yourself”) explores her passion for personal disruption through engaging conversations with disruptors. Each episode of this podcast reveals new insights about how we work, learn, and live.
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episode 347: 347 Austin Hillam: Lessons From A 22-Year-Old Garage Entrepreneur
It’s just the nature of our show that we often talk to folks in the mastery part of their professional S-Curve. It’s easy to talk to a CEO about leadership. It’s also another fact that our guests tend to be older – at least, out of college.
But it is rare that we come across an entrepreneur in that very first launch point of their career. A person that put college on hold to pursue an idea, a person willing to put their dreams on hold for an hour to talk to us.
Austin Hillam is the co-founder of ZipString, a handheld toy that keeps a string in constant motion. It's easier to just watch than explain, here.
And we’ve got Austin today for a rare look at the phase of professional life that a lot of our guests can only reflect on – starting that first business.