SymbioHaven

About us

SymbioHaven is a set of ventures in Austin that feed each other, run out of Dove Springs. Below is who you are actually dealing with, and the terms anybody working here is paid on.

The people

Brendon Wash in a gray jacket and blue shirt against a plain backdrop.
A framed Certificate of Excellence from the State of Texas presented to Brendon Wash in recognition of Dove Springs Proud community service, signed by State Senator Judith Zaffirini and dated February 2026.
Brendon Wash speaking at a wooden lectern with a handheld microphone, mid-sentence, in a blue suit and tie against a red stage curtain.

Brendon Wash

Founder

Started SymbioHaven in Dove Springs, working from the observation that most of what gets thrown away in Austin is thrown away a few streets from somebody who needed it.

Runs the routes, the builds and the outreaches, and writes the papers the methods are published in. Studying computer science.

Recognition

Certificate of Excellence, Texas Senate, presented by Senator Judith Zaffirini, 2026

Dove Springs Proud, community service volunteer

What anyone here is paid

Every role is paid the same for the same work, and the rate has to be one a person can actually live on. That is the condition, not the ambition.

Until a role can be paid that way it does not get filled. Nobody is asked to do work on a promise, and nothing here runs on somebody covering the gap out of their own week.

Ten percent of every sale goes to the stewardship fund, off the top, before anything else is worked out.