This Friday August 19th at Covenant Life Church my friend Sebastian Traeger will be speaking at our monthly Marketplace Ambassadors meeting at 7am.  Last year I had the immense pleasure of meeting and spending a week with Sebastian and over thirty other young men and women at the MarketplaceOne leadership forum, the One Institute.  Sebastian was a standout there for all the right reasons.

He will speak on “Avoiding the Idol and Idle of Work.” We’ll post the audio as soon as we have it.

Sebastian has spent the last 13 years starting and building various businesses. Most recently, he co-founded and served as CEO of Razoo.com, a social fundraising platform that has raised over $47 million dollars for over 8,000 causes. He also co-founded, built, and sold the web-based businesses Christianity.com, a popular portal featuring news and resources and Silas Partners, a web consulting company that helps organizations with online strategy, marketing and fund raising. In 1998, Sebastian helped launch Village Phone, taking the lead for their operations in El Salvador. He started his career at the management-consulting firm Dean & Company where he took a quantitative approach to solving strategic business problems.

Sebastian attended Princeton University, where he played baseball, served as an RA, ran a campus cafe and carpet business, was active in Athletes-in-Action and studied politics.   He lives on Capitol Hill where he is married, has three children and serves as an Elder at Capitol Hill Baptist Church. When he isn’t working he likes to eat comfort food, travel and compete in just about anything.