Gomoll

Julie Gomoll, CEO of LaunchPad Coworking, is a seasoned entrepreneur with proven ability to jumpstart businesses and bring innovative ideas to profitable reality. Gomoll's heart, her passion, is in creating and serving community through innovative strategies, the latest of which is building LaunchPad Coworking, where technology, ideas, and people can meet. She has been a leader and a visionary in the fields of new media and community building for over two decades. Successful organizations she has founded or co-founded include Go Media (sold to Excite, Inc. in 1996), Austin Free-Net, and Halsoft.com. She transformed Go Media from a one-person operation in her garage into an award-winning web design and development agency. For Austin Free-Net Gomoll defined new visions and goals for supporting Internet use and education in traditionally underserved markets in Austin, creating a model that is recognized internationally as a blueprint for success in community computing. In addition, at Excite and Excite@Home, she was responsible for their entire online community strategy, growing what had been a vague notion of needing users to "participate on the site" into the highest traffic-generating suite in Excite's product line, pioneering protocols and positioning for the then unheard-of applications instant messaging, chat, message boards, groups and web-based email.