For better or worse what was most interesting assignments was early on in career was fortunate to do a lot of interesting things. I was deployed back-to-back - same decisions of not knowing if and when it would end. 9/11 happened my senior year so I graduated into an Army at war. Still in the Reserves, but mainly got out for the op tempo At that point decided I as going to get out - if I was going to do it, I wanted to have a plan and attacked getting out spending 1.5 - 2 years getting out. As I started thinking about having kids, the future looked like back-to-back deployments with training in between. Between training and deployments was gone for most of that five years. I was stationed in Germany for over five years it was great but intense. Got to experience Army before and after transition. Was fortunate that he started just before 2011. Jon: Older than Chris, so transitioned first.You each separated about two years apart from the Army - what lead you each to decide to transition from the Army?.This is not meant to be a verbatim account of our conversation, but a VERY basic text transcript of our discussion. Please note that I type these notes during the interview so there are likely to be misspellings, grammatical errors, and misquotes. Forbes Article about the Top 25 Veteran Founded Startups in America.You can claim this offer here, and see a list of books recommended by my guests at BeyondTheUniform.io/books
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Audible is offering one FREE audio book to Beyond the Uniform listeners.I came across Jon and Chris in a 2016 Forbes Article about the Top 25 Veteran Founded Startups in America. Chris is also a Sloan fellow from Stanford University. He worked at Tessera for one year prior to starting his first company, Everblue. Jon is a Sloan fellow from Stanford University.Ĭhris started out at West Point, after which he served in the Army for five years, most recently as Operations Officer, 7th Army Joint Multinational Training Command. After his transition from the Army he worked at Carrier Corporation for three years, before starting his first company, Everblue. Jon started out at West Point, after which he served for five years in the Army, most recently as an Operations Officer & Battle Captain, 1st Infantry Division. Versame has raised $2.5M in funding and is a team of sixteen. Jon Boggiano and Chris Boggiano are the Co-Founders of Versame, which leverages technology for large scale impact to improve early childhood education and language development.
So we just said let's do more of this thing and do it in as many spots as possible. Then we eventually stumbled across something where people would pay us money for it. That started a process where we just endlessly turned over rock, after rock, after rock trying to find something, while absolutely not knowing what we were doing. That was roughly the thought process that gave us the left and right limits of starting an energy business. "Wouldn't it be great if our country didn't have to care about Iraq's oil, or the Middle East's oil? Maybe we should start an energy related business - ok let's go figure that out.
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