Austin Lee
CEO, KAYA
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Steering Committee Member
The Basics
Company Name: KAYA
Location: Full time remote, with team members in the SF Bay Area, Tahoe, Squamish, Hueco
Founded: 2019
Full-Time Employees: 7
Products: KAYA, the climber’s app, and Plastick for routesetters
Social: Instagram
Claim to Fame: The fastest growing climbing community with almost 100 participating gyms in North America.
The Culture
The best thing about working at kaya is:
Smart, passionate climbers committed to doing things right and bringing the climbing community together on KAYA. Being full time remote means we can live our best life.
When we’re not working, we’re:
Climbing! Or training for climbing. Or watching climbing videos.
What we’re reading:
Guidebooks … lots of guidebooks.
What we’re listening to:
If they made a movie about our workplace, it would be called:
Progression ;)
Inclusion in the outdoors matters because:
Everyone deserves to experience the connectedness to nature, the power of community, and the true sense of wellbeing that climbing offers. The future of climbing includes everyone.
Five years down the line, it’s our hope that:
KAYA has connected the global climbing community and enabled the next wave of collaboration, progression, and stoke in the climbing world.