Michael Houck

Megaphone

We create high-converting LinkedIn, X, and newsletter content for over 50 founders and send it viral with the help of over 400 creators with tens of millions of followers.

Founder

Founding Journey

Helping founders build, grow, and raise capital for their startups.

launch house

An early stage venture fund for companies building the New Silicon Valley. It began as a membership club built around IRL coliving residencies in LA, NYC, Tulum, Aspen, Miami, and Lisbon.

Co-Founder

Airbnb

Product Manager

Uber

Product Analytics, Uber Eats

TherapyNotes, LLC

Software Engineer

85,000+ founders read my free weekly newsletter. Follow me to learn about startups and venture capital.

I didn't know what a startup was until after college. I wasn't lucky with connections or mentors.

But within a few years my startup raised $23 million from a16z + other investors.

Along the way I:
· Cold emailed my way into an early role at Uber Eats
· Got laid off by Airbnb during COVID
· Built an audience of ~100K across LinkedIn and X
· Started a coliving residency for startup founders in Tulum
· Co-founded a venture fund and made over 50+ early stage investments (incl. Figure and Beehiiv)

More recently I've bootstrapped my personal holdco from $0 to $100K MRR in under 2 years. We help founders through content, connections, capital, and services:

· megaphonestudio.com → let my content agency build your newsletter or social media audience
· megaphone.network → partner with big creators in your niche

· join.foundingjourney.com → get my weekly playbooks and advice alongside 75k founders (for free)
· upgrade.foundingjourney.com → get ~100 fundraising case studies from founders I interviewed
· go.foundingjourney.com/fundraising → get connected with investors (including me)

I'm also building a new YouTube channel. Here's a recent video on the history of Silicon Valley: youtu.be/alUQxEldEMM

A weekly newsletter designed to help you build, grow, and raise capital for your startup.

SmartAsset

Chief Marketing Officer

Responsible for consumer marketing in SmartAsset's financial advisor lead generation business.

SVP of Marketing

Built and oversee 10-person B2C performance marketing team with mid 7-figure monthly advertising budget. Paid acquisition leader who's helped grow SmartAsset's investor <=> financial advisor lead generation business from $0 into a multi-million dollar business, using direct response strategies on social, native, SEM, content marketing, email, direct buys, etc. as well as OTT (streaming) and direct mail.

VP, Digital Marketing & Revenue Operations

Oversee digital marketing strategy across search, social, native and organic channels. Manage paid acquisition and revenue optimization efforts.

Digital Marketing Director

Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc.

Product owner for development of marketing engineering tools and platforms through in-house development and 3rd party integrations. Plan and execute roadmaps for workflow / automation solutions across multiple engineering teams. Successful launch and management of campaign optimization platform and affiliate marketing platform. Manage vendor relationships and integrate third-party technology with internal systems.

Senior Marketing Manager

Managed $10MM+ in annual CPA marketing spend, growing net earnings across portfolio of 18 downloadable software products. Led marketing technology projects with engineering and reporting teams to improve processes and analytics.

Marketing Manager

Assistant Marketing Manager

CORFO

Investment Executive

One Pearl

Marketing Operations Manager

Chilean Economic Development Agency

Marketing / Research / Investor Relations

Startup growth insights -- SVP of Marketing at SmartAsset

CMO at SmartAsset, where we've grown a lead generation business from $0 to $100M+ in revenue. 

* First principles thinking
* Behavioral psychology
* Intelligent donkeys
* Generative AI


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