“It was really a crazy thing,” he told Brewbound. Until the merger, Untappd had remained a side project for Avola, who held another full-time tech job, and he was working 80 hour weeks to maintain the app, which had grown to 4 million users in five years. The platform merged with Next Glass, a wine recommendation platform, in 2015. However, all good things come to an end, and I felt that I needed to focus on myself and my family by stepping back.”Īvola and Tim Mather founded Untappd in 2010. “Untappd has been 1/3 of my life and I’ve loved every minute of it.
“This was a HARD decision for me personally, and it’s been an emotional process,” he wrote on Twitter. He will remain a part owner of Next Glass. His last day as a full-time employee was January 20. Avola cited the desire to focus on his “health, happiness and family” as his reason for stepping down, which he elaborated on in a post on his personal website.
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