Colin Guinn Biography
Colin Guinn is an American tech Entrepreneur from Austin, Texas. He is the founder of Guinn Partners.
Guinn is best known for competing in the multi-Emmy Award-winning reality series The Amazing Race and emerging the winner alongside his wife American model, Christie Lee Woods.
Colin attended the University of Texas.
He founded Austin startup Hangar, after serving as Chief Revenue Officer at 3D Robotics and co-founding and serving as CEO of DJI North America. Guinn is one of the most interviewed experts on UAV technology in the world and has also been featured at premier industry conferences and in countless top- rated publications and newscasts including 60 minutes, Tech Crunch, and Fast Company.
Colin Guinn Age
Guinn was born on 9 January 1981 in Austin, Texas. He is 38 years old as of 2019.
Colin Guinn Family
Guinn has not yet disclosed any information regarding his father, mother, or siblings.
Colin Guinn Christie Lee Woods
Guinn met his long-time partner and wife Christie Lee Woods while they were attending the University of Texas. Colin noticed his future partner when Christie gave a presentation in their communications class, and they quickly became friends. Eight months later, he worked up the courage to ask her out, and they’ve been together ever since. The couple got engaged on the season finale of The Amazing Race 5 and got married a year later.
Guinn and Christie have two sons together, Achilles and Cruz. The couple considers their children as their proudest achievements.
Colin Guinn Amazing Race
Guiin first participated in the reality game show Amazing race season 5, with his partner now wife American model and actress Christie Lee Woods. They finished second on the show. The couple was invited to participate in The Amazing Race All-Stars, but had to decline due to Christie’s pregnancy.
Guiin and Christie returned for the 31st season and emerged as the winners of that season. Guinn and Christie Woods were crowned the winners on the season finale of the show on June 26, 2019 winning the grand prize of US$1 million.
Colin Guinn Guinn Partners
Colin with Guinn partners and a team of long-term experts from previous companies, combine to bring their product development and marketing skills together as a digital agency to high-tech companies and startups looking to break into new markets.
He has also been foundational in propelling the consumer drone market in North America. Colin’s passion for UAVs and aerial cinematography began when he created a company that specialized in producing aerial photography marketing materials for luxury homebuilders. He also designed and built his own custom radio-controlled helicopters and specialized gimbals. All this work led to the creation of his aerial cinematography company Avean Media, where Colin grew into one of the wolrd’s top UAV flight and design experts.
He has been featured on 60 Minutes, ABC, NBC, CBS,FOX and many more and has laos become the face of the drone market across the world. He has done high profile media appearances and events in Europe, Asia, Australia and South America.
Colin Guinn Salary
Though Guinn has a successful career as a tech-entrepreneur, his salary is not yet revealed.
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Describe what you do
Colin Guinn: We help companies develop/bring new technologies and innovations to market… primarily in drones, autonomous robotics, and emerging technologies.
Three words to describe you
Colin Guinn: Loving, energetic, and capable.
Favorite hobbies
Colin Guinn: Surfing, standup paddling, mountain biking, hiking, auto racing, dancing, sailing, camping, yoga, snowboarding, building, and flying drones.
What is the accomplishment you are most proud of?
Colin Guinn: Co-creating a beautiful life with Christie, our two beautiful boys, Achilles and Cruz, a successful career doing what I love with people that I love, and a daily practice that allows me to maintain high vibrations.
What scares you most about traveling?
Colin Guinn: Sitting in the middle seat in coach.
What excites you most about traveling?
Colin Guinn: Getting to experience other cultures and people around the world and witnessing their way of life first hand… seeing how different their culture can be, while at the same time recognizing how similar we all are at the core.
What country and place would you most like to visit and why?
Colin Guinn: Antarctica, because of the wildlife.
What do you hope to accomplish by running the Race with your partner (other than winning one million bucks)?
Colin Guinn: Watching myself run The Amazing Race 15 years ago gave me the opportunity to look in on myself from the outside and see just how unconscious and full of ego my behavior was. Since then, I have done many years of work to broaden my perspective and come from a more loving and collaborative mindset. I hope to enter this engineered reality that is designed to bring on extreme stress and reduce resilience and apply the principles and practices that have transformed my daily life to see if they can help me have a much more harmonious experience while still being every bit as competitive as we were the first time around.
Who do you think will be your biggest competition: Racers, Houseguests, or Castaways?
Colin Guinn: Racers, without a doubt. The Amazing Race is very different than the other shows in that the competitors are out in the real world having to navigate countries with different cultures and language, dealing with uncontrollable flight delays, lack of sleep, jet lag, etc. I think the people who have experienced that before, and proved to be successful in that environment, will be our biggest competition.