Sarah Hamer, who was recently named one of Forbes 30 under 30 honorees along with her best friend Elle Smyth, credits some of her success to her early years as an Austin Elementary School student in Dunwoody.
Hamer and Smith co-founded San Francisco-based Retail Ready, a supply chain software startup. The company helps manufacturers comply with retailer rules, thus reducing compliance violation fees which often cost producers billions annually.
Hamer grew up in the Dunwoody Station subdivision and graduated from Austin in 2005. She remembers her fifth grade teacher Kay Weber as someone who encouraged her interest in math, more often thought of a male-dominated area of study…