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Erik Balsbaugh

Erik Balsbaugh

Dec 12, 2025

2:43
Austin, Eric, maybe each of you tell us a bit about yourselves and your backgrounds, which people would love to know a bit more about what you guys were doing prior to being involved in this space and what you guys are currently working on now, whoever maybe wants to go first.
2:57
Yeah, sure.
2:58
So I've been a degenerate political hack for about 25 years now.
3:05
I graduated from college and moved out to Jackson Hole immediately to piss off my parents and then came back and worked for John Kerry to piss them off even more.
3:14
And so I got hooked on campaigns and the adrenaline of that and for the next 20 years was involved in campaigns, politics, public affairs.
3:28
I worked for Hillary Clinton for a while.
3:30
I was actually one of the first consultants that worked with Elizabeth Warren when she ran for Senate in 2012, and have been a general consultant for candidates, issues, and business as well.
7:51
How did each of you guys kind of arrive at open frontier? What was kind of your entry there?

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