She is the CMO and co-founder of metaverse funding platform, QGlobe, and former CEO at Broad Listening, an artificial emotional intelligence agent.

[2] She is the chairperson of the board of directors at Coding FTW, a nonprofit organization that promotes diversity and equal rights in the technology sector.

[7][8] Upon returning to California, Austin attended film and broadcast classes at San Francisco State University,[9] later relocating to Parsons The New School for Design in New York City.

[13] Austin began her career as a tech-news producer and DJ for three years at UC Berkeley’s radio station, KALX.

[14][23] After extensive tests through the winter of 2007-08 under the name PopSnap,[17] Austin launched a web series and blog called Pop17 in March 2008.

[27][28] Austin was featured as one of the main cast members on Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, a reality TV show that aired on Bravo, that followed the lives of six people who worked for startup companies in the San Francisco Bay Area.

On the show, Austin lives at the Four Seasons Silicon Valley as entrepreneur in residence, producing marketing videos for them on Pop17.