Andrew Medal is a professional rule breaker and ex-troublemaker. He’s a tech entrepreneur, columnist, self-taught and award-winning web designer, and angel investor based in Southern California. His work has been featured in Forbes, Computerworld, the Next Web, Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, Fox, Fox News, Time, Entrepreneur, Inc., and many others.

Medal is the host of Action & Ambition on Entrepreneur’s 15 million monthly viewer network, and the founder of Hooty, a startup pairing A.I. with video press pitches. He’s working on another startup fusing augmented reality with cryptocurrency, and releasing two books: his prison memoir, Hard Knock Hustle, and From Cell Block to C-Suite: Prison Leadership Lessons for High-Powered Executives. Medal is intimately involved with the Last Mile, a nonprofit organization that teaches inmates in prisons how to computer program.