UM Business College to Host Co-Founder of Whatnot for Executive Lecture Series
MISSOULA – Logan Head is a lifelong entrepreneur and the co-founder and chief technology officer of Whatnot, the largest live shopping platform in North America, the U.K. and Europe. Head will present the next installment of the at the 91次元 .
This in-person event at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11, in the Priscilla and Harold Gilkey Building on the UM campus, is free and open to the public. The moderated talk is entitled “Entrepreneurship: Building a Fast-Growing Marketplace.”
A longtime entrepreneur, Logan founded his first company at the age of 19 before joining engineering leadership at marketplaces such as Flight Club and GOAT.
A passionate collector himself, Head teamed up with Grant LaFontaine to build a platform that enables anyone to turn their passion into a business, bringing people together through real-time, community-driven commerce. This was the genesis of Whatnot.
Today, Whatnot spans hundreds of categories – from sports cards and sneakers to fashion, coins and live plants. Buyers spend an average of 80 minutes a day on the platform, discovering products, forming connections and driving more than 1.5 million daily transactions.
Head is currently based in Big Sky.
UM’s Gilkey Executive Lecture Series was established by Harold and Priscilla Gilkey in 2004 to enrich business education by providing students, faculty and community members with direct access to business leaders.
Gilkey lecturers address issues across marketing, management, finance, ethics and leadership. In addition to leading classroom lectures and discussion, speakers present a lecture at a public forum on a topic of their choice and are invited to meet with graduate students and campus and community leaders.