Career Development
Young Leaders in Tech
ReferralMob and General Assembly are teaming up for an epic night with some of Boston's most interesting and inspiring young leaders in tech.
Phil Castro
Founder & CEO, BarPass
Chicago
Phil has won awards like 35 Under 35, Startup of the Year, Big Idea Awards, Chicago Innovation, etc. Also, he has been featured in Forbes, Inc., Huffington Post, Crain’s, ABC, Tribune, BuzzFeed, TastyTrade, BuiltIn, ChicagoInno, RedEye, Voyage, etc.
Phil is a serial entrepreneur and startup veteran from Chicago. Launched multiple successful small businesses of his own and worked for multiple venture backed startups since 2008.
Currently, he is the founder of BarPass which is a social happy hour app that gives users exclusive deals (typically one complimentary cocktail and/or drink specials) at the trendiest bars and restaurants. For bars, BarPass is a digital bar promotion platform and drives supplemental business during slower time frames. Download the FREE app today and start discovering bars, meeting people and tasting spirits. Along with running BarPass, Phil also teaches a traveling startup workshop called "Startup Bootkamp" in different cities. Startup Bootkamp is a one day 10 hour crash course in startups, entrepreneurship and venture capital.
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