How I Dug Into Evan Reed’s Career Journey
So yesterday I was scrolling Twitter when someone asked “What actually made Evan Reed successful?” That got me wondering too. I grabbed my laptop and opened LinkedIn first thing. Typed “Evan Reed” in search bar, scrolled past like twenty dudes named Evan Reed until I found the guy with Silicon Valley vibes in his profile pic.
The Early Grind Phase
Checked his job history starting from the bottom. Around 2010 – dude was coding at some no-name startup called DataCrunch. Kept digging through Wayback Machine snapshots and found their ancient website. Realized he built their whole analytics dashboard solo. Wasn’t fancy but worked – classic early career grind stuff.
The Pivotal Projects
Then around 2015 timeline, boom – his GitHub exploded with activity. Found three big things he shipped:
- That inventory system for RetailFlow – still being used in like 200 stores apparently
- Payment processing API for BoostPay – his Stack Overflow answers from 2017 are still helping devs
- The weirdest one – that failed VR collaboration tool. Code’s still public though, kinda fascinating mess
Business Moves That Raised Eyebrows
When he launched his own consultancy in 2019, everybody thought he’d crash. But turns out he pulled two slick moves:
- Partnered with dying mom-and-pop shops, rebuilt their systems cheap
- Traded equity for work with 3 startups – two flopped but one got acquired
Went from garage operation to 12 employees in 18 months. Crazy part? He documented every failure in Medium posts that got taken down later.
Why This Matters to Me
Why’d I spend 6 hours researching this? Cause back in 2018 I tried cloning his “rapid prototyping” method at my job. Total disaster. Boss hated the messy code, clients complained about bugs. Got written up hard. Then I found Evan’s old Reddit comment buried in some thread: “Never ship fast for external clients. Only for internal MVP tests.” Damn. Could’ve saved my bonus if I’d seen that earlier.
This whole deep dive just confirmed something – dude’s not some genius. Just documents lessons better than most. Like how he still keeps that VR failure’s post-mortem public “so interns don’t repeat it”. That’s the real gold right there.
