Welcome Evan Baehr of Outbox and Able Lending

Nov 9, 2017, 12:00 – 3:00 AM

We're pleased to welcome Evan Baehr to Startup Grind Austin. Evan Baehr is the cofounder of Able, an online lender to small businesses. His previous startup was Outbox, a consumer internet company aiming to takeover the US Postal Service was backed by venture capitalists Peter Thiel and Mike Maples. He is also the coauthor of Get Backed: Craft Your Story, Build the Perfect Pitch Deck.

In-person event

About this event

We're super excited to host Evan Baehr this month at Startup Grind! 

Evan Baehr is the cofounder of Able, an online lender to small businesses. It launched June 2014 with the Wall Street Journal's Weekend Interview and on TechCrunch. His passion at Able is to serve the Fortune 5 Million – the 5.8 million small businesses that represent the backbone of the American economy. His previous startup was Outbox, a consumer internet company aiming to takeover the US Postal Service and backed by venture capitalists Peter Thiel and Mike Maples, on Fox News, CNN, TechCrunch, FastCompany, Wall Street Journal, INC, the New York Times, and on Jay Leno.

He is coauthor of Get Backed: Craft Your Story, Build the Perfect Pitch Deck, and Launch the Venture of Your Dreams from Harvard Business Press (2015), which has hit #1 in Amazon's business new releases. You can buy it here and learn more here.

Has worked on the Facebook platform under Sheryl Sandberg, helping shape a vision to make life better by making it social, and for Peter Thiel building a political data company. He’s an honors graduate of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, Yale Divinity School, and Harvard Business School.

He has worked for the American Enterprise Institute’s Charles Murray, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, and the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, served as a legislative aid on the House Appropriations Committee under Rep. Frank Wolf, was Chief of Staff on the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, under which he wrote the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act, and was the failed candidate for Princeton’s City Council, despite receiving more votes than George W. Bush.

He has served on the board of the Manhattan Institute’s Adam Smith Society, the New Canaan Society, the Rivendell Institute, and Harvard Business School's FIELD Program, and is a mentor with First Round Capital's Dorm Room Fund. He cofounded the Hoover Institute’s Rising Fellows Program, Harvard Business School’s Ideas@Work, Princetonians in the Nation’s Service, and the Yale Forum on Faith and Politics. He is the recipient of the Lily Endowment Thesis Prize, the Blackstone Legal Fellowship, and Princeton’s James Madison Fellowship. He lives in Austin, TX, with his wife, Kristina Scurry Baehr, a patent litigator, and children Cooper and Madeleine. 

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Speaker

  • Evan Baehr

    Able Lending

    Cofounder

When

When

Thursday, November 9, 2017
12:00 AM – 3:00 AM UTC

Agenda

12:00 AMFood and Networking
1:00 AMFireside Chat
2:00 AMNetworking

Organizer

  • Joe Famalette

    Cander

    Founder & CEO

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Dell Technologies

Partner

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Capital Factory

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