“That’s how all the badges started to work - simple, it was just an aspect of getting you outside your comfort zone, trying an IPA or a barleywine or something that got you discovering different things. “Untappd’s main mission from Day One is to engage the community, to educate them about beer and get them to explore new beers,” he said. “Without Greg’s dogged determination since founding Untappd in 2010, Untappd would not be what it is today.”Īvola said he hopes Untappd continues to foster connections with its community of beer drinkers and their interactions with breweries and each other. “We all owe Greg a deep debt of gratitude for co-founding and building, line of code by line of code, the app users all over the world have come to love,” Smith said in the post. Avola will remain with the company as executive advisor to CEO Trace Smith, according to the post. Since its founding, Untappd has gained more than 9 million users, who have racked up nearly 1 billion beer check ins, according to a post on the company’s blog about Avola’s departure. “It was pretty interesting from that perspective.” “Nope, I’m the support team,” he continued. “People always assumed that we were a bigger company back then, and we were getting emails from people saying ‘Hey, I can’t believe the founder of Untappd is emailing me back - you must have a support team, right?’ “It was really a crazy thing,” he told Brewbound.
Until the merger, Untappd had remained a side project for Avola, who held another full-time tech job, and he was working 80 hour weeks to maintain the app, which had grown to 4 million users in five years. The platform merged with Next Glass, a wine recommendation platform, in 2015. However, all good things come to an end, and I felt that I needed to focus on myself and my family by stepping back.”Īvola and Tim Mather founded Untappd in 2010.
“Untappd has been 1/3 of my life and I’ve loved every minute of it. “This was a HARD decision for me personally, and it’s been an emotional process,” he wrote on Twitter. He will remain a part owner of Next Glass. His last day as a full-time employee was January 20. Avola cited the desire to focus on his “health, happiness and family” as his reason for stepping down, which he elaborated on in a post on his personal website.
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