GREG VAN HORN
CEO, LAUNCH POTATO, DELRAY BEACH
Launch Potato is in the business of connecting advertisers and consumers. Van Horn, along with three others, founded the company in 2014. Launch Potato has been ranked among Inc. magazine’s fastest-growing companies. Before starting Launch Potato, Van Horn spent 15 years in digital marketing and engineering as the co-founder of a customer acquisition company, which he grew from 10 employees to more than 700 with more than $1 billion in revenue.
EDUCATION
| Florida Atlantic University (BS)
|
FLORIDA ISSUE
| Climate change
|
ALTERNATE CAREER?
| Chef
|
FAVORITE VACATION
| Vietnam for food, people, natural beauty
|
STAYING FIT
| Working out with a trainer multiple times a week and snow skiing in the winter months
|
SOMETHING SURPRISING
| I got my first client as a web programmer when I was 14 years old and spent all of the money I made in the first year getting high-speed internet installed at my mother’s house.
|