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Startup Grind Hosts Nick Huzar, CEO (OfferUp)
August 10, 2016 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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WTIA Startup Grind Hosts Nick Huzar, CEO (OfferUp)
Startup Grind is the largest independent startup community, actively educating, inspiring, and connecting 400,000 founders in over 200 cities. We nurture startup ecosystems in 85 countries through events, media, and partnerships with organizations like Google for Entrepreneurs. The cornerstone of our global community are monthly events featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators and investors who share lessons learned on the road to building great companies. Founded in Silicon Valley, Startup Grind has now hosted 2,000 fireside chats since its founding in 2010. To date, Startup Grind has helped millions of entrepreneurs find mentorship, connect to partners and hires, pursue funding, and reach new users.
This month’s event features CEO Nick Huzar. Nick is presently founder, CEO of OfferUp with a mission to revolutionize how people buy and sell locally by providing the simplest and safest solution. OfferUp is the largest mobile marketplace in the USA.
Most recently, Nick was the co-founded of Konnects Inc. There he designed the original platform and directly managed the engineering and design teams in addition to his daily duties as the company’s Chief Technology Officer.
With Nick’s leadership, Konnects growth exploded growing from 1,500 members to over 1 million within 18 months. Nick oversaw the hiring of personnel, growing the team from 2 to 26 people. He played a vital role in assisting the CEO with fundraising efforts which attracted over $6 million in investment.
Prior to Konnects, Nick played a key role on the web team at T-Mobile for 3 years where he was pivotal in leading the development and integration of web applications. He facilitated the design and implementation of a completely new website as the company transitioned from Voicestream to T-Mobile. During his time at T-mobile he helped to redevelop the online channel enabling the company to accept over $45 million a month in payments and 8 million customers.
