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Austen Allred

Austen is the co-founder and CEO of Lambda School. He grew up in Utah and served as a Mormon missionary in Ukraine before starting college at Brigham Young University in Provo. He dropped out after a couple of semesters. For two years he ran a venture-backed startup from a small town in Utah, but the company failed. Later, he worked with an online lending company called LendUp before starting Lambda School in 2017. He has also written a book on Growth Hacking: The Secret Sauce

Source: Austen regularly shares book recommendations on his Twitter account and has also recommended a few books in a Medium blog post.

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