About
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Welcome to EvadingMediocrity! In this blog we’ll be sharing with you our experiences and insights both personally and professionally in hopes that you will take some of this [goldmine of valuable] information and avoid the trap/nightmare of becoming just another “average joe” – not that anything’s explicitly wrong with that , but who wants to aim for average?
Hopefully, we can communicate this information to you in interesting, enlightening, and entertaining ways to both keep you interested in the business world that surrounds you as well as provide immediately useful tips enhance your personal AND professional life.
In the beginning and in the end, EvadingMediocrity is for us as much at is is for you. It is a way for us to interact with other bright and ambitious minds out there and vice versa but also a chance for us to share our thoughts for the betterment of the world and our peers!!!
Thanks for visiting.
A bit about our authors…
About Austin:
Austin is a recent university graduate who has been employed by a few of the largest technology corporations in the world. He is currently working in sales at a software company in Silicon Valley.
Austin attended school in the Northwest where he graduated from business school with a focus in information systems. During Austin’s time in school, he spent a substantial amount of time working with various local startups. Though he has shifted gears and has been working in a corporate environment for the last few years, Austin continues to invest his time heavily in continually fostering his entrepreneurial spirit and investing saavy to enable him to spend less time time working as an employee on ventures that are not his own. Austin’s goal is to have the option to retire from the salary earning workforce well before the age of 40. Obviously this is going to require a little something more than just the average amount of effort hence…
Outside of “work” Austin is a huge comic book fan, video gamer, technology enthusiast and triathlete.
About Chris:
While attending school in the midwest Chris graduated with a degree in Business with a focus on Information Systems and Entrepreneurial Management. In his young career, Chris has worked at two startups, one of the Big 4 accounting firms, and two large technology companies.
His first startup was a web company that grew from a classroom project that helped shape his overall view of the business world. His second entrepreneurial experience was with an IT consulting firm that should gross around $1M in revenue this year. Chris still sits on the board of directors of this company though he has since switched gears by moving to California to be employed by a large technology company in the Bay Area.
Outside of “work” Chris is a overall sports fan (but football maniac) and a self-proclaimed foosball champion.
