Pete Kistler

When I was 22 I founded an online reputation management company and grew it to nearly 100 employees. I designed our flagship do-it-yourself tool that disrupted the industry's traditional "expensive managed services" model, growing it to half a million users and thousands of paying customers.

To get where we are today, my co-founders and I raised $5 million in venture capital from our tiny office in the middle of nowhere in upstate New York. And since then, I've been humbled by being honored by The White House, Inc. 35 Under 35, Entrepreneur Magazine's Top 5 College Entrepreneurs and many other national press outlets.

But more than anything else, I consider my greatest achievement to be the community of people at BrandYourself. These are my friends and family. It's an honor and a privilege to work alongside everyone, aligned by the belief that *everyone* – no matter how wealthy they are – should have a say in how they look online.