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.

I have spent my career proving that "crazy" ideas aren't crazy - they are just early.

At Telus: Managed $8M innovation fund, ran shark-tank style validation, drove 40+ projects/year at more than 4X ROI

At Wavelo: Saw AI moving faster than our roadmap. Created AI cadence, rallied teams, shipped features to AWS. Got pulled into Wavelo Labs to run proof-of-concepts.

What I do: I help companies (and myself) move from "sounds crazy" to "shipped product"

Currently:
→ Available for fractional product leadership (innovation/AI/0→1) and Product/Program roles
→ Building my own thing (using the same playbook)
→ Sharing what I learn publicly (because the best way to learn is teach)

If you need someone who can:
- Drive product inception and growth
- Be a full stack builder of new product ideas
- Evaluate which "crazy" ideas are directionally correct
- Rally teams around unconventional bets
- Ship proof-of-concepts
- Build momentum when everyone else is planning
- Demo to customers and transform their processes

Let's talk.

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