Joel Runyon
Owner at IMPOSSIBLE ®
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Runyon is an entrepreneurial founder and growth-minded product operator with 10+ years building and scaling consumer-facing online businesses from Austin. As owner of IMPOSSIBLE and affiliated ventures (Ultimate Paleo Guide, Ultimate Meal Plans, Impossible fitness/ecommerce/publishing brands) he combines digital marketing, product launches, subscription growth and app development with a knack for bold storytelling and community building. He advises startups on growth and partnerships, has driven significant organic and paid acquisition gains for early-stage companies, and contributed open-source localization work to the Olive video editor to broaden accessibility to Indonesian users. Joel’s background in endurance challenges—seven ultramarathons on seven continents—underscores a discipline for long-term projects and an appetite for ambitious, unconventional experiments. He pairs data-driven marketing and product intuition with hands-on execution across content, apps, and commerce.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Business Administration, Spanish, BA, Business Administration, Spanish at Bethel College - Company
English, Spanish, jamaican patois
Github Skills (4)
localization10
translation10
cpp3
qt3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
olive-editor/olive
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Free open-source non-linear video editor
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:18 commits, 6 PRs, 17 comments in 29 days
Contributions summary:Joel primarily contributed to the localization of the Olive video editor. Their commits focused on translating the application's user interface into Indonesian. The work involved creating, modifying, and adjusting translation files to provide Indonesian language support for the software. These changes enhance the accessibility of the software for Indonesian-speaking users.
cppwindowsvstvideo-editorlinux
ZoomTen/ztintro
Oct 2015 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 release, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years
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