Ethan Herdrick, born in Spokane, Washington (USA), is an entrepreneur and computer programmer.  Ethan is one of the co founders of Biographicon. 

Ethan grew up in  rural Washington state, near the town of Odessa, in Lincoln county.   His family were independent farmers so Ethan spent summers in farm work.

Ethan loves programming computers.  His introduction it happened in the fifth grade (about age eleven) when he was allowed by the middle school science teacher, Aram Langhans, to team up with older students Brian and David Sayres to learn to use a programable calculator.  Soon a single Radio Shack TRS-80 personal computer appeared in Langhans' classroom and they immediately moved on to that.  The day Ethan first saw it, the others sat him in front of the machine.  The screen said hello, and asked him his name.  He obliged this polite little program and typed in his name.  It said, "Hello Ethan".  So he ran it again, and again it asked him his name.  Thinking they had customized the program in anticipation of his using it,  Ethan entered 'Fred'.  It said, of course, "Hello Fred".  Ethan was astounded, and hooked.

At the age of 18, a very excited Ethan left home to enroll at Washington State University.  For a variety of reasons, some mistaken, some foolish, some vain, and some reasonable, Ethan decided against a course of study in the obvious field, Computer Science.  He preferred instead classes on subjects that allowed for argument and debate.  Ethan left WSU with a degree in Economics.

Following college a very restless Ethan sought adventure, and took a job with a field geophysics consulting company, Durango Geophysics, of Durango, Colorado.  The company does geophysical survey work for mining companies in Mexico (and elsewhere).  Soon Ethan was working in cactus-laden hills near the tiny town of Catavina, on Mexico's Baja peninsula.  Other consulting projects in Mexico with Durango Geo took Ethan to San Javier and Suaqui Verde in Sonora, as well as Torreon and Concepcion del Oro in the states of Coahuila and Zacatecas, respectively.  Herdrick did more "geophys" work with Zonge Geophysics, which landed him in an especially remote backcountry area in the Sierra Madre mountain range.

In 1998, Ethan quit his job in Mexico to move to the technology center of Seattle to do a web startup.  The idea was to build and operate a limit order matching system for trading equities (stock) that would be directly accessible by the public over the internet.  The system was then meant to expand into an open auction initial public market for stocks with market-set initial pricing that would let the company issuing the stock capture all the upside in investor interest.  With a brand new web domain, 3mx.com (acronym for the suitably grand name "3rd Millennium Exchange") Ethan was ready to change the world of finance.  There was a problem with this plan, however: it was ridiculous.  With no experience in finance, let alone in the specialized world of IPOs, nor any knowledge of securities law, the business was doomed.

Ethan attended Startup School on October 15, 2005 where he was exposed to Paul Graham, founder of venture firm Y Combinator.

On March 1, 2008, Ethan and business partner Daniel Terhorst launched the Biographicon, the site you are using right now.  Their startup gained its seed funding and much good advice from seed capital firm Y Combinator.

Ethan Herdrick has studied Programming, Geology, Physics, and the ways of Women.

Ethan Herdrick's nickname is "Horse". It was in High School, anyway.

Ethan Herdrick is never going to be in the middle class - he will either be rich, or plotting to get there.