<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuaanton/">Josh Anton</a> is the founder of <a href="https://xmode.io/">X-mode</a>, a location services company that started out as Drunk Mode, a mobile app allowing college students to track their friends’ whereabouts during a night out. Josh parlayed that location technology into an industry leader in X-mode, and recently sold to Digital Envoy for an undisclosed amount. Josh now serves as Chief Strategy Officer with Digital Envoy. He is a 2014 UVA McIntire graduate.
 We spoke with Josh about:
<ul>
 <li>Minimizing risk</li>
 <li>Lessons on intellectual property</li>
 <li>Listening to your customers</li>
 <li>Learning vs. earning</li>
 <li>Learning by doing</li>
 <li>Knowing yourself</li>
 <li>Setting quantitative goals</li>
 <li>Mergers/acquisitions</li>
 <li>Aligning incentives</li>
 <li>Finding co-founders</li>
 <li>Selling million dollar contracts</li>
</ul>

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Learning out Loud publicizes interesting conversations between 3 UVA undergraduates and experts across entrepreneurship, self development, and other fields. Our focus is on uncovering the varying definitions of success and generating actionable next steps to get there through life skills not covered in the classroom. Hosted by Justin Guerra, Marlee Reiter, and Chapin Zerner.

Edited by Ray Zerner.