![Austen Allred](/_next/image?url=%2Fdata%2FprofileImgs%2Fausten-allred.jpeg&w=384&q=75)
Austen Allred
Austen Allred is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lambda School. Before founding Lambda School, Austen was the co-founder of media platform GrassWire. He co-authored the growth hacking textbook Secret Sauce, which became a best-seller and provided him the personal seed money to build Lambda.
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