Episode Recap

Geng and I talked about:

• Finding the true pain points of your target audience
• Using college and graduate degrees in unexpected ways
• Being a non-technical guy at a tech company
• The risk (or lack thereof) in starting your own company

Guest Bio:

Geng is a proven serial entrepreneur with a keen interest in social impact. He is currently the CEO and co-founder of Civic Champs, a social enterprise that creates technology solutions for nonprofit organizations to automate volunteer management. The goal of the company is to make volunteering a frictionless experience for both volunteers and service organizations.

Prior to Civic Champs, Geng co-founded two companies based in Pittsburgh. The first company, RentJungle.com is an apartment search engine which was sold in 2014 to The Rainmaker Group. The second, Community Elf (rebranded as Cosmitto) is a social media management agency which was sold in 2017 to a private equity firm. In addition, Geng had the honor of spending 4 years at McKinsey & Company, as an advisor to senior executive clients at Fortune 500 companies – helping them solve their most pressing strategic and management issues. Geng holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Michigan State University.

Links and Resources

• Civic Champs
• Civic Champs was a semifinalist in the TechCrunch Battlefield Pitch

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