Austen Allred founded Gauntlet AI to train engineers to build with AI after founding Lambda School, later renamed BloomTech. He invests in early-stage startups through Austen Access Fund and has backed Softr and Novig.

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Austen Allred founded Gauntlet AI to train engineers to build with AI after founding Lambda School, later renamed BloomTech. He invests in early-stage startups through Austen Access Fund and has backed Softr and Novig.

Career

Austen Allred studied at Brigham Young University (Attended; no degree) and Y Combinator (Summer 2017 accelerator program (S17)).

Founder and CEO at Gauntlet AI until Present
Senior Manager, Growth at LendUp from 2016 to 2017
Social Team Lead at Fit Marketing from 2013 to 2014

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When The Switch Flipped

His 2016 account of moving from Grasswire’s failure to selling a coauthored growth-marketing book, and recognizing demand that turns attention into paying customers.

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Rethinking engineering education for AI

Allred explains Gauntlet AI’s approach to intensive learning, how AI changes engineering skills and why he chose to build in Austin.

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