Purdue Founders

An open source startup community for Purdue students, alumni, and investors.

After running The Anvil and my own company Quasi for a while, I wanted to build a new community of founders at Purdue. To do so, I had to build a brand from the ground up, market it, and get founders to actively participate as they built. I created a new online community for ongoing discussions, learning, feedback, and shipping products to market. My LinkedIn launch post received over 20,000 hits, and within days, over a hundred founders joined. As we gained traction, we expanded to hosting large-scale events, further accelerating the community’s growth.


Purdue Founders had proven two things: a bottom-up approach to community-building was desperately needed on campus, and people across disciplines sought an environment like Catapult where they could develop meaningful products and projects.

Timeline

Sep 2023 - Present

Role

Founder + Advisor

Tools

Figma

Framer

Keynote

GPT-4o

Midjourney

Discord

Google Workspace

Disciplines

Brand & Identity Design

Exhibition Design

Spatial Design

Web & WebApp Design