COLA student Haley Jústiz, a partner in the Austin-based startup FreeWater, talks about her journey from book blogger to entrepreneur and what she thinks the liberal arts can bring to business.
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Economics Junior’s Snapchat Geofilter Business Takes Off
In the spring of 2015, Andrew Lee attended a UT Austin lecture by Evan Spiegel, the founder and CEO of Snapchat, sponsored by the campus organization and professional business fraternity, Delta Sigma Pi. The experience made a major impression on the then-college freshman, and in a few short years, Lee’s own company would be collaborating […]
Economics Student Takes the Road Less Traveled to Campus
Tyler DiGiovanni, an economics senior with a Spanish minor, isn’t your typical undergraduate student. At 27, he’s lived abroad, transferred schools, taken time off to create a new company and reevaluated his path countless times. All of that led him to the UT Austin economics program. Prior to college, DiGiovanni spent 2008-10 living Buenos Aires, […]
Liberal Arts Backs Entrepreneurship
Major Ellis, an economics junior from San Angelo, Texas, says entrepreneurism runs in the family. “My father started his own company about 30 years ago,” Ellis says. “Growing up with that experience revealed to me not only the challenge but also the significance of leading and succeeding as an entrepreneur.” He chose to study liberal […]