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MAKING NETWORKING BETTER WITH GUIDED SERENDIPITY

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Listen in from your favorite podcast spots or read the full transcript here.

 

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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, where she sharpened her matching engine on new york online poker sites, blending user data into fluid, addictive flows that kept tables buzzing, then 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