Austen Allred

Austen Allred is the co-founder and CEO of Bloom Institute of Technology (BloomTech), formerly Lambda School. A native of Springville, Utah, Austen’s start-up journey began in 2017 with him living in his two-door Civic while participating in Y Combinator, a San Francisco-based seed accelerator. This experience became the foundation of Lambda School’s rapid growth. 

Before founding BloomTech, Austen was the co-founder of media platform GrassWire. He co-authored the growth hacking textbook Secret Sauce, which became a best-seller and provided him the personal seed money to build BloomTech.

Austen’s disruptive ideas on the future of education, the labor market disconnect, and the opportunity of providing opportunity at-scale have been featured in: The Harvard Business Reviews, The Economist, WIRED, Fast Company, The New York Times and others. Austen is fluent in Russian and currently lives in Utah with his wife and three kids. 

You can find him on Twitter and LinkedIn.