Jeremy Neuner’s previous jobs include helicopter pilot in the Navy and the Economic Development Manager for the city of Santa Cruz, but that’s history. Now he’s the co-founder and CEO of a “little but growing company” called NextSpace, which just got $425,000 in angel investment and is planning to expand to Los Angeles and Silicon Valley (two locations are in the works) as well as double the size of its San Francisco facility.
What do you do for a living?
I’m the co-founder and CEO of a little (but growing!) company called NextSpace.
What would you be doing if you weren’t doing that?
Someday, I’d like to write and speak and teach for a living.
What do you do in your free time?
Play Legos with my kids and ride my bike all over Santa Cruz County.
What brought you to Santa Cruz?
My wife (who is cooler and smarter than me) got recruited for a job here.
What’s your favorite street?
The corner of 36th and Prospect in Georgetown in my hometown of Washington, DC.
Name something you’re excited about.
The huge shift in how people are working. Everything is changing. We have more mobility, more flexibility and (most important) a chance to regain a bit of our fundamental humanity.
Name a pet peeve.
When people don’t take responsibility for their actions (both good and bad). Also, peel-n-stick packaging that neither peels nor sticks.
What are you reading?
Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From and Bill Bryson’s At Home. I’m also reading the fourth Harry Potter book to my kids. And my guilty pleasure is reading Vanity Fair magazine.
What’s the most important thing you’ve learned in the last three years?
Think, but don’t over-think. Trust your gut.
Secret star crush?
Natalie Portman. Oh, and Drew Barrymore. Yowza!
