Serial Entrepreneur (2 exits) & Growth Advisor • Founded AllPaws (Sold to PetSmart) • Co-Founded Saturday App & Snap Interactive (100m users & $100m revenue)

𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗺𝘆 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝘁𝗼 𝟭𝟬𝟬𝗠 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘀 & $𝟭𝟬𝟬𝗠 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 • 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿 𝘄/ 𝟮 𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘀 • 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽, 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗲𝘁, 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴.

Serial tech entrepreneur, business operator, and strategic advisor with deep experience starting and growing consumer-digital businesses. 

As a growth and product-driven startup founder, I have a proven track record of building and growing innovative products used by millions. I have achieved successful exits while overseeing multiple C-Level executive roles for publicly traded, growth stage, and venture-backed startups. I have a bias for action and a passion for solving big problems. Proven ability to innovate and deliver rapid revenue and user growth. 

At the intersection of my passion for pets and online dating expertise, I co-founded AllPaws. This innovative, online dating-style pet adoption platform quickly gained millions of users and was acquired by the pet industry leader, PetSmart. 

Before that, as co-founder I helped build and lead publicly traded SNAP Interactive from inception to rank as the 36th fastest growing technology company in North America with 4,400% revenue growth over 5 years, $20 million+ in annual revenue, and over 100 million users of our online dating apps and social products. 

Today, I advise businesses and startups on optimizing their digital and product growth strategies. Additionally, I coach entrepreneurs and business leaders on building high-income personal brands, and advise top influencers, models, and creators on growing and monetizing their audiences.

I continue to work on new projects, explore new opportunities, and advise. 

Been featured in ABC News, Bloomberg, Good Morning America, TechCrunch, Fox 5 News,  Huffington Post, Mashable, Forbes, Fast Company, Business Insider, and many other top tier publications. 

SPECIALTIES: Growth, Optimization, Digital Strategy, Product Strategy, Personal Branding 

Start-ups | Digital Strategy | General Management | Product Strategy and Development |  Rapid Revenue Growth | Strategic Vision | User Growth & User Acquisition | Marketplaces | Business Strategy | Business Operator | Problem-Solving | Business Operations (CEO, COO, GM) | Product Management | Conversion Optimization | A/B Testing | Web and Mobile Analytics | Mobile Applications | Mobile Growth | iTunes App Store Optimization | e-Commerce | Social Media Marketing & Strategy | M&A Process | Pet Industry | Online Dating Apps

Darrell Lerner

The key to growing a startup in 3 steps.

Test → Learn → Iterate

Then double down on what’s working.

Tight feedback cycles let you gather data and make progress as quickly as possible.

(Quick clip from a podcast I did with Adam Metwally on growth + why virality is harder than people think.)

But here’s the part nobody really wants to admit:

You can’t really “engineer” virality.

Everyone thinks they know what will go viral…

until they post something they’re sure will rip, and it flops.

Then they post something random…

and it takes off...

That’s why “going viral” isn’t a strategy.

The right systems are.

You can’t force outcomes.

But you can run enough reps to find them.

That’s how you win in growth when there’s no formula.

The winners don’t predict virality. They build systems that find it.

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2x Exited Founder & Growth Advisor • Built AllPaws (Acquired by PetSmart) • Co-Founded SNAP Interactive (100m users & $100m revenue)

Hi! I'm Phil — I run a financial media company, write a daily markets newsletter, host my own show, publish stock picks each Sunday, and produce events for media professionals in NYC. 

That's my one-liner. 

For more details, keep reading!

I spent three years at Business Insider, where I built one of the most-read finance newsletters in media, published a book and won multiple overseas fellowships, including a Fulbright.

At the start of 2024, I quit my job to co-found Opening Bell Daily, a financial media company that delivers an industry-leading data newsletter covering the stock market and economy. 

Our work is syndicated by Inc. Magazine and published on Bloomberg Terminals, reaching half a million investors, executives and decision-makers on any given day.

I'm also the founder of Journalists Club, a community for media professionals in NYC. 

I host intimate dinners, large-scale workshops and networking events where reporters and editors come together to build relationships, land jobs and sharpen their craft. 

Over 300 journalists have attended an event. 

Many have found jobs through this network.

My reporting has appeared in Fortune, Morning Brew, BuzzFeed News, Yahoo Finance, and Inc. Magazine, among other outlets. 

I've also published fiction in literary magazines and blog extensively about careers, media, and brand-building and startups. 

I'm a frequent guest and speaker across news channels, panels, podcasts and events.

Awards:  
• Fulbright Fellowship, Berlin Capital Program (2024)
• Austrian American Media Fellowship (2022)
• Bryce Nelson Award for Distinguished Journalism (2021)
• Penny Lernoux Award for International Reporting (2021)
• USC Annenberg Graduate Fellowship (2020) 

Before turning 25, I self-published two books, both of which became #1 Amazon Bestsellers:

📘 Life Between Moments: New York Stories (2022)
📔 Everywhere But Home: Life Overseas as Told by a Travel Blogger (2020)

I earned a Master’s in journalism from USC Annenberg on a full scholarship, and hold an undergraduate degree in kinesiology and philosophy from San Diego State University. 

A California native now based in NYC, I’ve also lived in Hong Kong, Spain, and Germany, and have traveled extensively across Europe and Asia.

Email: phil@openingbellmedia.com | X & Instagram: @philrosenn

Phil Rosen

Wall Street’s fear gauge is flashing with Greenland drama heating up.

With global leaders converging in Davos, markets are back in the familiar position of responding to geopolitical noise. 

That’s dragged stocks lower and pushed the VIX volatility index up 30% from a week ago, underscoring the sense of near-term panic among investors.

That kind of swing feels destabilizing at the moment. 

Yet it’s also historically marked something like a reset button before asset prices move higher. 

Dating back to 1990, a weekly VIX spike of 30% or more has coincided with strong returns in the S&P 500 over the following year. 

The S&P 500’s median return over the next 12 months has been about 17% — almost double its long-term annual return — and stocks have ended higher in more than 80% of those cases. 

History also confirms that the bigger the VIX surge — the more extreme the “fear” — the higher the forward returns. 

Importantly, that pattern holds even when volatility is driven by political tumult rather than fundamentals. 

Full analysis in Opening Bell Daily! 👇

Co-founder, Opening Bell Daily (193K+ subscribers) • Host of Full Signal • Founder, Journalists Club • Fulbright Alum • 2x Author

Good morning, investors. President Trump is expected to speak today in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting. Friends of min

Open article: Greenland uncertainty just pushed markets to flash a buy signal  by Phil Rosen • 3 min read

Greenland uncertainty just pushed markets to flash a buy signal

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