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Heather Brunner

Heather Brunner

CEO of WP Engine

Sep 30, 2026

21:59
Also in the Austin Tech Hall of Fame.
22:01
Exactly.
22:02
And well-deserved.
22:04
And so, and Bill had just made an investment in, and this is in, you know, 2012, an investment in the fall of 2012 in WP Engine, in Jason Cohen.
22:16
Jason Cohen, this time is a, you know, four-time, this is his fourth startup investment.
22:22
All of his previous stars were bootstrapped, never took any institutional money whatsoever, and had two out of those three, two really big exits, and then had a tiger by the tail with WPNJ.
22:36
It was growing leaps and bounds, had really found product market fit.

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29:49
So what do you think is the state of tech in Austin?

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