Austin Taylor Gorst is one of the Co-Founders of IONIC who has been involved since the birth of the business and has been active in the rapid growth of the business since its inception in 2012. Austin worked six years in IT while going through the infancies of the business and development of the products IONIC sells today. In September of 2015, Austin resigned from his Account Executive role in IT and joined IONIC as a full-time operator of the business once the recreational license came online in 2015. Austin was a part of the rapid growth in 2016, assisting in training and building up the IONIC team, increasing top-line revenue from $275,000 in 2015 to $2.7 million in 2016 and then again in 2017 increasing revenue to $4.7 million in the Washington market. In early 2017, he started the first expansion plan to replicate the IONIC business plan in the State of Oregon, and today he operates as the GM of IONIC Oregon.
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