Local entrepreneurs Mike Trigg and Max Schauff imparted insights into their careers, starting businesses and making it in the entrepreneurial world to over 50 eager entrepreneurial, business and technology students at the Founder Stories Fireside Chat on Oct.10 at Morgridge Hall.
The event, hosted by Transcend UW and the UW Tech Exploration Lab, brought together UW-Madison alum and LineLeap founder Schauff with Wisconsin native Trigg who discussed topics relevant to young entrepreneurs, including risk-taking, networking and perseverance.
Schauff, a UW-Madison College of Engineering alum, co-founded LineLeap, a mobile app allowing users to skip lines at bars and won $15,000 at the Transcend UW Innovation Competition in 2018 for the idea.
Trigg spoke about his decades of experience in technology startups, including telecom companies and data analytics firms in Silicon Valley.
Schauff credited Transcend’s prize money for launching the company.
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