Gaucho: Savings Inside

Nate earned his B.S. from UC Santa Barbara in Chemical Engineering, his M.S. from UC Irvine in Biochemical Engineering, and his PhD from UC Riverside in Bioengineering.

Nate has been involved in multidisciplinary projects during and beyond graduate school. These range from combining bio-nanotechnology strategies to exotic engineered viruses, contributing to cancer research, and using DNA for computer digital encoding technologies. He has produced numerous high impact journal articles, magazines, review articles, and patents while gaining awards and worldwide accolades during his bioengineering doctorate in 2007.

Nate's interests include movies, reading, training, tennis, swimming, web, and biotech.

Favorite Quote: "People often talk more about what they will do rather than doing it."

Favorite Way to Save: Gaucho, of course!

Tolu is a lover of everything startup and has always believed in surrounding himself with innovative people and good thinkers. He loves working with early stage companies helping them grow into big shots. Tolu was a double major in undergrad (Chemical Engineering and Business Marketing). Following graduation, he's been completely focused on building startup businesses. He's worked with several starups in the past and now works full-time for the Gaucho cause. Being an overall PR savvy lad, he continues to blog about everything startup-related.

Tolu's interests include playing and watching football (he doesn't like to call it soccer). Having played at the college level, he earned the nickname El Nino Maravilla on the pitch. Besides football, you can find Tolu out movie watching, bar hopping, beat making, and being cool.

Favorite Quote: "Every morning somewhere in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or gazelle -- when the sun comes up, you'd better be running."

Favorite Way to Save: I am a Gaucho, are you?

Based in Austin, Texas, Marv is a writer/performer who loves to entertain and has a terrible time writing serious bios about himself that do not contain either comical hyperbole, or outright lies. Despite this, he will try. Marv was a media staple in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska. He was almost as famous as the weekend weather guy on the lowest rated local news show. Despite this, he relocated to Austin because he was tired of digging his car out of the snow and because it was like a more affordable version of L.A., only without the earthquakes.

Marv's hobbies include music, reading, and making funny little movies to entertain his friends.

Favorite Way to Save: When it comes to savings, Marv is always looking for a good deal. But he doesn't believe in sacrificing quality for savings. He doesn't see any point in spending a dollar to save a dime. As such, he's always on the lookout for deals that make sense, not just being cheap for its own sake.

Fun Fact: Marv is a direct descendent of the inventor of the famed Southern dessert, the Moon Pie.