Colby Young

Colby was born and raised in Houston, Texas, but has made his home in East Austin. Colby graduated undergrad from the University of Texas McCombs School of Business with a BBA in International Business. Following undergrad, he worked in Houston doing Asset Management for Quantum Partners, an FDIC contract and consulting firm. After five years in Houston, he came back to Austin and graduated in 2015 from the full-time MBA program at McCombs focusing his studies on Entrepreneurship and New Venture. During his MBA program, he worked on his own business idea and since graduating he has joined his second software start up, SourceDay. In the last two years, he has helped the company grow from three to twenty-one employees, helped secure seed funding and series A funding. His professional passion is in Entrepreneurship, while his personal passions are in the outdoors, Longhorn sports, music, cooking, and my family and friends. Hook’em!