Josh is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Mingly, a Los Angeles based social CRM startup backed by Idealab. Prior to Mingly, Josh founded and led AuctionWagon, a national chain of eBay drop-off stores and affiliate locations. He opened AuctionWagon’s first retail store on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles and developed its custom enterprise software platform. AuctionWagon was acquired in 2005 by Net2Auction Inc. Before AuctionWagon, Josh served as Chief Technology Officer at QIXO, a travel meta-search engine based in San Francisco and backed by Eastgate Capital. He led the engineering team in creating QIXO’s real-time deep-web crawling technology, and supporting its extensive infrastructure. He also held a position on the Office XP team at Microsoft, and has consulted for companies such as IBM and Disney. Josh holds a BS in Applied Math from University of California at Santa Barbara.
