Amos was born in the Bronx, New York, and grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey. At a young age, Amos started seeking adventure and pushing limits. While attending college at the University of Massachusetts in 1992, Amos fell in love with rock climbing, which brought him to northern California and eventually a job packing boxes for Shoreline Mountain Project. While there, Amos helped turn an old school mail-order company into one of the first e-commerce companies, which launched his career into the startup world.

After Shoreline, Amos was either a founder or early employee in six other startups including HotJobs.com, Work.com, Business.com, mySpoonful, BlackLocus, and Joust. At each of these startups, his responsibility was always directly related to figuring out product–market fit, early sales, and building sales organizations. Then, in 2015, he moved over to the investor side as managing director of Techstars in Austin, Texas. Now, after over 70 seed-stage investments, Amos has become one of the most active early-stage investors in all of Texas, via Techstars Austin.

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