“There’s this level of approachability to your average Mainer and this desire to help each other while not interfering with each other that just permeates.” “In Maine, if you really wanted to get a coffee with the governor of Maine, I think you could do it,” Sullivan says. He says the state has strong community ties and a healthy local business culture that helped make one of his early ideas, Buoy Local, a gift card for local businesses, into a success. As he found out through some early business ventures, those two things go hand in hand. At Bowdoin College, Sullivan made a habit of buying and selling broken iPhones on Ebay to earn some extra cash.īy the time he graduated in 2008 with a degree in art history, Sullivan knew two things: He wanted to stay in Maine and he wanted to be an entrepreneur.
Sullivan has been hustling and coming up with money making schemes since he was a kid.
Hard cider’s rise in popularity is a return to form for one of America’s most historic drinks The sudden shift from craft beer to crafting code might seem strange at first, but it’s actually the logical next step for a serial entrepreneur who has always had one eye on the future and the other on Maine.ĭon’t call it a comeback. I’m passionate about more things beyond that.” “I love the industry, and I love what the industry has done for Maine,” Sullivan says. Sullivan recently stepped down from his role at the guild to pursue a computer science master’s degree at the Roux Institute at Northeastern University in Portland. As the voice for the Pine Tree State’s burgeoning brewery business, Sullivan has helped lead the charge for a new form of economic and cultural growth in Maine.īut now Sullivan is leaving it all behind for something completely different: computer science. It certainly helps that for the last decade Sullivan has served as the executive director of the Maine Brewers’ Guild. He can easily rattle off a long list of the best breweries in Portland, Maine, but he can also walk you through the malting process that prepares barley for brewing.
PORTLAND, Maine-Sean Sullivan knows a lot about beer.
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