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Brent Hussey

Co-founder, Reach Social

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Brent Hussey co-founded Reach Social, a Vancouver group-project platform for postsecondary students, with his longtime friend Sarah Main, and was its chief product officer. The Georgia Straight, describing him as a designer in September 2016, reported that he modelled the product on Slack and that its beta was opening at UBC, UVic, SFU and BCIT.

Brent hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Brent co-founded Reach Social, which appears in 1 talk in the archive.

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Vancouver-based startup Reach offers postsecondary students efficient way to tackle group projectsGeorgia Straight
2016
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12 Startups to watch (with founders younger than you)Vancouver Is Awesome
2015

Quick answers

Did Brent Hussey co-found Reach Social?

Yes. The Georgia Straight reported on September 7, 2016 that Sarah Main "joined forces with longtime friend, designer, and Reach cofounder and CPO Brent Hussey". Vancouver Is Awesome's October 28, 2015 list of startups to watch names Reach's founders as "Sarah Main, Brent Hussey".

What was Reach?

The Georgia Straight described it on September 7, 2016 as an online platform for student collaboration built around a syncable calendar, with groups called "episodes" that carried a set expiration date. Hussey told the paper: "We love the simplicity of Slack, so we've always wanted to model our product after that."

How did Reach get started?

According to the Georgia Straight on September 7, 2016, after a place in the 2015 cohort of The Next Big Thing, "Main and Hussey were able to secure enough funds to develop a preliminary model of Reach", with the beta opening that week to students at UBC, the University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University and BCIT.

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