Gene Swank

Gene is a serial entrepreneur who bootstrapped his first venture with less than $100 initialinvestment into a multi million dollar global corporation. He has been responsible for successful ventures in the manufacturing, technology, fashion, real estate and education verticals.Gene is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of Propellant Labs, an online acceleratorfor startups. As the Managing Director, Gene lead the charge to scale the portfolio ofcompanies to north of $300M. Prior to his work as an entrepreneur, Gene spent 15 years as a Software Engineer in the high tech industry where he lead projects in aerospace,  telecommunications. Gene is also on the board of Springs Charter Schools.  He is a contributor to Forbes.com, a mentor for a variety of companies from computer vision to a professional sports league and is a respected thought leader in crypto and blockchain. Gene is also an international best selling author, with his first book "No Money Down". Gene's book focuses on aiding entrepreneurs to bootstrap their companies to either a funding round or into profitability without spending their life savings. Inventor of U.S. Patent No. 10,043,410 & U.S. Patent No. 10,332,412 Learn more at www.geneswank.com