{"id":1106,"date":"2019-11-22T09:21:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T15:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=1106"},"modified":"2020-10-05T11:50:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T16:50:40","slug":"brett-hurt","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/speaker\/brett-hurt\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett Hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brett A. Hurt, CEO and Co-Founder, Data.World<\/p>\n<p>Brett Hurt is the CEO and co-founder of data.world, a Public Benefit Corporation (and Certified B Corporation\u00ae)<br \/>\nthat is the platform for modern data teamwork and the world\u2019s largest collaborative data community. In 2017, 2018, and 2019, data.world was honored on the \u201cBest for the World\u201d list by B Lab, placing the company in the top 10% of all B Corps globally. Brett<br \/>\nis also the co-owner of Hurt Family Investments (HFI), alongside his wife, Debra. HFI are involved in 73 startups, 21 VC funds, and multiple philanthropic endeavors.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Brett was given the Best CEO Legacy Award by the Austin Business Journal. Brett Hurt began programming<br \/>\nat age seven and doing so on the Internet at age eighteen. Brett finished his free book, \u201cThe<br \/>\nEntrepreneur\u2019s Essentials\u201d, in August 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1867,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-1106","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"CEO and Co-Founder of data.world","speaker_last_name":"Hurt","speaker_classification":["Featured Guests"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/1106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/1106\/revisions\/1868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}