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Josh Brewer

General Partner at Enjoy The Work. Designer, founder, advisor, coach, investor.

Novato, California

Education

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    2024

    Enjoy The Work helps great founders become great CEOs. A partnership of 12 experienced and successful former operators and investors, ETW has worked with more than 160 startups since 2015 via immersive 1-on-1 advisory and coaching. Enjoy The Work startups have a combined value of more than $14B and are located all over the world. A sampling of our companies includes: Tipalti, Honeybook, Shef, Paper Education, Wonderschool, inDinero, Realty Mogul, Jampack, Mudflap, 4M Analytics, and People One Health.

  • Collective Member

    2024

    Baukunst is a collective of creative technologists advancing the art of building at the frontiers of technology and design. Collective members are a select group of top practitioners in their field, invited to advise founders in the portfolio, support company building, and promote collaborative learning across the collective.

Various Startups

2012

  • Advisor

    2012

    Advising startups on design, product strategy, operations, fundraising, including: * Flowengineering.com - a collaborative requirements tool for agile hardware teams * RunwayML - making cutting edge video and content creation accessible to all * Luroapp.com - a better way for teams to connect what they build to the insights and resources that guide the “why” * Maker.me - No-code software to create, publish & optimize content for their landing pages, product pages, blog posts, user-generated stories and more * Pixate.com - mobile app prototyping tool (acquired by Google) * N3twork.com - creating the very best mobile games, now a blockchain gaming studio * Crema.co - discover and subscribe to roasted-to-order coffees from artisanal roasters (acquired by Blue Tiger Coffee) * Seesaw - collaborative decision-making app * Message.me - mobile message app (aquired by Yahoo!)

The Designer Fund

2011

  • Mentor/Advisor

    2011

    Helping designers become Founders

2022 - 2023

  • EIR

    2022 - 2023

    Advising the EQT Ventures portfolio companies, evaluating new investment opportunities, and meeting with founders building B2B companies.

2016 - 2022

  • Co-founder and Executive Chairman

    2020 - 2022

  • CEO

    2016 - 2020

    Design is more than layouts and prototypes. We’ve built Abstract to help with the other half of design work: managing changes, documenting the work, and keeping everyone informed. It’s a version controlled workflow, built on Git, and seamlessly integrated with Sketch.

Habitat

2014 - 2016

  • Founder & CEO

    2014 - 2016

    Habitat was a Product Design Studio with the goal of de-risking early-stage exploration and finding the right teams to solve the right problems. Two companies were spun out of Habitat in the first year: Abstract and Awesome.ai.

2010 - 2013

  • Principal Designer

    2010 - 2013

2008 - 2010

  • Director of User Experience

    2008 - 2010

2007 - 2008

  • Creative Director

    2007 - 2008