Josh Brewer
General Partner at Enjoy The Work. Designer, founder, advisor, coach, investor.
Novato, California
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Min Investment:
$2,500.00Max Investment:
$10,000.00Target Investment:
$5,000.00
Skills
Education
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Work Experience
2024
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.
2024
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.
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!)
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.
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