Joe Heitzeberg
Joe Heitzeberg is the founder of AI Tinkerers and serves as Co-Founder & Chairman at Crowd Cow. He founded AI Tinkerers, a community for active builders, and has previously led Crowd Cow as CEO and MediaPiston as CEO. His expertise includes entrepreneurship and building technical communities.
Joe Heitzeberg (Crowd Cow CEO) on picking the right idea, validating with strangers, and scaling a marketplace
Investors laughed at the original idea for Crowd Cow. But consumers wanted to buy right away. Now they've raised $25M, grow to 90 employees, and went from selling crowd-funded cows to a complete marketplace. Joe Heitzeberg, co-founder & CEO, goes behind the scenes on his lessons validating and scaling Crowd Cow.
Special COVID-19 Episode: Joe Heitzeberg
Crowd Cow CEO and Co-founder, Joe Heitzeberg, tells the story of how the company came to be and how they are bringing people together through high quality craft beef and meats. He discusses how COVID-19 has impacted the meat industry and how his company's been continuing to help small and multi-generational family businesses during this time. Joe talks about their work with Arbor Day Foundation and how everything you buy on Crowd Cow, end to end, is 100 percent certified carbon neutral. You'll also learn about radical transparency, get tips on fundraising, and even hear him play a little guitar!…
Organizations
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Crowd Cow Co-Founder & Chairman at Crowd Cow 2023–present, Co-founder, Executive Officer, Director 2016, CEO 2015–2023 · current
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AI Tinkerers Founder 2022–present · current
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oDesk VP of Development 2011–2013 · past
Education
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MIT Sloan School of Management MBA · 2002–2004
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University of Washington n/a, Technical Japanese · 1995–1997
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University of Washington B.S., Computer Science · 1991–1995
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University of Washington Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science
