John Abraham

His public profile lists Texas State University. In an interview, he recalled moving into technology sales after meeting industry employees while bartending during college.⁠[1][2]

Great Feats’ later launch announcement identified Abraham as a former director of enterprise sales at Convio.⁠[3]

In Haymaker’s interview transcript, he recalled launching an application in 2014. Great Feats’ public launch announcement followed in March 2016.⁠[2][3]

He co-founded Great Feats with Dave Hart and Amy Van Wyngarden. The subscription platform combined offline challenges, social sharing and gamification to help nonprofit organizations attract and engage supporters.⁠[3]

OneCause announced its acquisition of Great Feats, with all three co-founders joining the buyer. Financial terms were not disclosed.⁠[4]

According to Haymaker’s biography, he served as OneCause’s vice president of peer-to-peer solutions following the acquisition.⁠[5][4]

Haymaker traces its origins to Kate Harwood’s workspace idea at a fundraising conference shortly before the pandemic.⁠[5]

His public profile lists service as a board member and board president of clean-water charity Well Aware from January 2020 to April 2022. The organization’s 2022 tax filing separately lists him as a director from January through October that year.⁠[1][6]

Co-founder Harwood later recalled leaving Salesforce in 2022 to build the self-funded business. The platform offered temporary offices and meeting spaces bookable by the hour or day.⁠[7][2]

Harwood later said growth had been insufficient to pay the founders, leading her to add consulting and other projects in 2023. Her account still described Haymaker as offering venue services.⁠[7]

The program published Asking A Tech Millionaire How To Start & Scale a Tech Company, explicitly identifying Abraham and Haymaker and linking his personal LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry. Topics included idea validation, funding, marketing and preparing a business for sale.⁠[8]

In the interview, he advocated consulting potential customers before building a minimum viable product and improving it through direct feedback.⁠[2]

His public professional profile lists experience at Salesforce. Haymaker’s biography describes him as living with his family in Austin, Texas. His professional account is https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-abraham77/ (opens in a new window).⁠[1][5]