Levers with Amos Schwartzfarb and Trevor Boehm

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Amos Schwartzfarb is the Managing Director of Techstars Austin and author of the best selling books for startup sales, Sell More Faster - The Ultimate Sales Playbook for Startups and LEVERSThe Framework For Building Repeatability Into Your Business. Amos began his career as an entrepreneur in the mid 90’s in the Bay Area at Shoreline Mountain Products and HotJobs.com. In 2004 after moving to Los Angeles, Amos founded Work.com which was eventually merged with Business.com where he was VP of Sales. Business.com sold in 2008 and in 2009 Amos moved to Austin and founded mySpoonful with Stacy Horne. mySpoonful was sold in 2012 and Amos joined Blacklocus shortly after. A year later Blacklocus was sold to Homedepot. Amos then went on to found Joust and become a mentor for Techstars in 2013. In 2015, Amos took on the role of Managing Director of the Techstars Austin program where he has run 6 programs and invested in over 90 companies through the Techstars Austin Accelerator. In his spare time, Amos loves to hang out with his family, mountain bike and play in the mountains.

Trevor Boehm was a writer before finding his way into building companies. A serial founder, he has also invested in more than forty startups, many of those through Techstars’ first Impact accelerator and as Managing Director of Alexa Next Stage, a program run with the Amazon Alexa Fund. He is currently at the venture fund Saturn Five.

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