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"All the motivation I needed was to hear 'you're not going to be able to do that.' "
— Damien Patton
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Damien Patton, CEO and founder of Banjo, is not a conventional tech entrepreneur. Before developing
the popular social discovery app, he served in Operation Desert Storm with the Navy, was chief mechanic
for a top NASCAR team, and even dusted for prints as a crime scene investigator. Eventually, his
determination to solve any problem in front of him led him to the tech world, where he won hackathon
after hackathon, eventually creating Banjo. The accompanying quote was taken from his SXSW V2V
2015 Opening Keynote session: "The Entrepreneurial Journey of a Serial Groundbreaker."
