Jay is an entrepreneur and community evangelist as founder of Unreal Collective. Previously, Jay spent several years in tech startups as COO of Tixers and a product manager at CrossChx. Now, as a Create Columbus Commissioner and Facilitator of Startup Weekend, his mission is to help and empower young professional communities and grow the startup ecosystems. Jay once bought Dave McClure a beer and was told that his pitch “didn’t completely suck.”