Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Austin Ligon is an Angel/Seed stage private investor at Tewada Capital; he is an investor and Board Member at Redfin, Inc. and Rev.com

Previously, Austin was the Co­-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer at CarMax, the nation’s largest retailer of used cars, from its creation in 1991 until his retirement in 2006.

Austin has also served as Senior Vice President of Strategy for Circuit City and for the Marriott Corporation and has been a Senior Consultant at Boston Consulting Group.

Austin earned his MBA from Yale University and his M.A. and B.A. degrees in Economics from The University of Texas Austin.