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RETHINKING HOW WE
CONNECT AT GATHERINGS

Ashlee Ammons is the Co-Founder of Mixtroz, a company that creates serendipity at live and virtual events using real-time surveying along with their unique algorithm.  Ashlee has an amazing journey – from Ohio to New York, Tennessee, and eventually to Alabama. She’s gone from interning with Lebron James to becoming one of the first few African American Women to raise over $1M in venture funding. She’s also been named as Entrepreneur Magazine’s “100 Powerful Women” of 2019.

To top it all off, Ashlee has known her co-founder literally her whole life (spoiler alert, they’re related!).

Make sure to listen to her incredible story.

“So we’ve done everything from, you know, a trade show to a TEDx”
~ Ashlee Ammons

In this episode Ashlee and Dan discussed:

• Interning for LeBron James
• How an awkward networking event gave birth to Mixtroz
• Working alongside her mom as Co-Founder
• The journey from Cleveland to NY to Nashville to Birmingham
• Where to find the best rollercoasters in the world

“Someone said to her in an open forum, like, Oh, I’ve heard of your little business, but you’re a black female in the South. This won’t happen for you…”
~ Ashlee Ammons

MORE on ashlee and mixtroz

Ashlee:

linkedin.com/in/ashleeanneammons
instagram.com/shemixalot87

Mixtroz:

mixtroz.com
twitter.com/Mixtroz
instagram.com/mixtroz

“If you made it to 2021, you won because 2020 was all about survival.”
~ Ashlee Ammons