Innovation Conversations: Doug Villhard

Presented by the Skandalaris Center

Olin’s new Professor and Academic Director of Entrepreneurship, Doug Villhard, presents The Art of the Side Hustle. Learn how to put your passion for entrepreneurship “into practice” while still succeeding as a full-time student (or full-time working professional). Doug will discuss how to select the perfect “side hustle”, how to launch it quickly, and how to learn and iterate along the way.

Doug started his career at Disney before leaving the corporate world 20 years ago to start companies (and side hustles). Despite now teaching at Washington University, he is still today the CEO and Co-Founder of Second Street, a software as a service tech company in the audience engagement space working with over 4,000 newspaper, radio, and TV stations across the country. As well as Managing Director and Co-Founder of Villhard Growth Partners and Chairman and Co-Founder of a non-profit high school that he and his wife started in their hometown (currently in it’s 8th year and proudly has a waiting list to attend).