Skipcart founder brings startup experience to Geekdom as its first entrepreneur in residence
As Geekdom’s first entrepreneur in residence, Ben Jones seeks to help startups validate their products, a critical step in growing a company. Jones sold Skipcart, the on-demand delivery company he founded, to the convenience store chain 7-Eleven for a “very substantial” price.The tech sector in any city is defined in large part by its success stories: people who have shown that it is possible to grow profitable startups there, emboldening others to believe they can do the same.
sold Skipcart, the retail-delivery startup he founded in 2018 and led as CEO, to the convenience store chain 7-ElevenHe is now settling into a new role as the first entrepreneur in residence at Geekdom, which has a goal of growing more than 500 startups by 2030; as of last month, it had achieved 104.
“In San Antonio, you have these accelerators and companies and capital. How about we bring some of the smartest people in town with capital, with ideas, and we just co-found companies together?” he said. “What that does is it kind of accelerates the early days of entrepreneurship. If we’re all in the same room, it accelerates that journey.”
I just happened to be doing CrossFit with one of the guys from H-E-B, and he was saying, basically, H-E-B needed to become an e-commerce company. Amazon was gonna get big into grocery delivery, so they wanted to get into delivery. I said, “What do you have today?” Well, we have online curbside. “What if you can offer delivery through that curbside?” He got us in touch with this guy who was in charge of the e-commerce team. And he said, “That’s an amazing idea.”We had no product.
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