We are pleased to welcome back another member into the Colopy Ventures team this summer! Â Alon Greyber worked here last summer, and will join us again this summer as an engineering intern. Â
Hey, Alon! Itâs great to have you here as another intern to work with. Â I heard that you worked here last summer too. What did you work on then?
Last summer I worked with the startup Peoplelove on their web development. Â
Do you know what youâll be working on this summer?
As of now, my main focus will be on the web design of Joeâs project-in-progress, Grepbeat. Â Â I may also do more work with Peoplelove, now known as Pugbee.
When and how did you learn web design?
I starting teaching myself programming in the sixth grade and Iâve stuck with it ever since. Â Iâm now a computer science major at NC State, and Iâve continued to learn more programming languages. Â
So after coming back to work here again, I presume youâre also interested in startups. Â Have you ever thought of starting your own company?
Actually, I have tried to start a few before! Â In high school, I ran a photobooth business for parties called DreamIt Photos, Â and I used to sell photography professionally. I also started a programming startup called âSpeakUpâ which would help people train for speeches through an automated system. Â I started it my freshman year of college, but decided to stop working on it once I found out there was already a similar program on the market.
Wow, those all sound great! Â Do you have any other interests beyond your work in programming?
Yes! Â As Iâve mentioned, Iâm interested in photography which was the foundation that led me to starting those photography businesses. Â Iâm also passionate about Robotics. Since leaving my high school in Durham, I still go back to help mentor the team there.
This all sounds great and I canât wait to work with you here!
Emma Markson is studying business at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and a marketing intern at Colopy Ventures. Outside of working with startups, you might see her running around her hometown of Cary or embarking on her next road trip.