CHAPTER 43
FROM BD TO FOUNDER: TRISTAN WALKER
Key Notes
Name: Tristan Walker
Company: Walker & Company
Role: Founder and CEO
Previous Companies: Twitter, Foursquare, Andreessen Horowitz
TRISTAN WALKER, founder of Walker & Company, a consumer products lifestyle brand, was born and raised in Queens, New York. When he was in college, he decided that he wanted to make as much money as possible as quickly as he could. He determined that he could do so by either becoming a professional athlete, working on Wall Street, or becoming an entrepreneur. The first was quickly ruled out, so he opted for the second and went to Wall Street. When he graduated from college (in only three years and as valedictorian), he took a job working as an oil trader and absolutely ...
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