{"id":360,"date":"2019-01-15T13:27:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T19:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=360"},"modified":"2020-10-09T09:49:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T14:49:50","slug":"bryan-jones","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/speaker\/bryan-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Jones, an entrepreneur, and technologist has started several companies and been issued multiple technology-based patents. In addition to being the founder and CEO of Strive and Solve Ventures, a boutique investment and advisory services firm, Bryan is also the Chairman of Stand Up Republic, a non-partisan 501c4 founded by Evan McMullin and Mindy Finn to defend democratic ideals, norms, and institutions. Bryan has a BSc Engineering, an MBA, and a JD, all from the University of Texas at Austin. While at UT, Bryan was a 21-time All American swimmer, an American Record holder, and captained the 2000 NCAA Championship team. Bryan has served as a board member of several organizations, including The Athletes Village, TeamTopia, the Greater Austin Chamber, PeopleFund, USA Swimming, The Seton Fifty, and The Texas Exes.\u00a0 He was also recently recognized as a 2018 Outstanding Young Texas Exes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2002,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-360","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Founder and CEO of Strive and Solve Ventures and Chairman of Stand Up Republic","speaker_last_name":"Jones","speaker_classification":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/360","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\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/360\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}