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Daniel Alberson Left Meta to Give Auditors Their Time Back
An EY audit desk taught him where the hours disappeared. A water-park wristband taught him how software could wait in line for people. Now the former Meta product manager is turning both lessons into Punchcard, while insisting the final judgment must stay human.
Bryce Judy Found a Startup Hiding in the Tariff Schedule
He did not set out to work in customs. Then a job at KPMG showed him a world of codes, rulings and expensive repetition - and a company worth building inside it.
Album VC Bet on Fewer Founders - Then Utah Started Minting Unicorns
Album VC built a sizable fund by doing something venture capital says it values but rarely scales: keeping the check count low and the partner relationship close. Its record traces the rise of Utah tech from overlooked outpost to repeat-company factory.
Trevor Maddux
Trevor Maddux is the co-founder and CEO of MotionOps, a Sandy, Utah software company building an all-in-one operating system for home and field service companies - plumbers, electricians, landscapers, remodelers and the like. He spent roughly two decades inside the trades, helping grow companies like Vivint and co-founding Cransten Service All Stars, one of the largest handyman and remodeling firms in the United States, before getting tired of stitching together four or five disconnected apps to run a single business. MotionOps grew out of an internal tool he was building for his own crews; when his technical co-founder asked whether he was building it just for himself or for everyone, the company was born. In 2023 MotionOps raised a $1.2M pre-seed round led by Alpine 100.