Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

• I am now working with Ryan Debenham and the leadership team at the board level to help steward GRIN into its next phase.

Nov 2016 – Jan 2025 · 8 yrs 2 mos

• Pivoted the company into influencer marketing
• Started the Creator Management category
• Achieved $1B valuation within 4 years, growing from $0
• Scaled workforce from 2 to 480 employees over the same period
• Raised over $145M in funding through 7 successful rounds
• Steered the company through 3 cost reductions
• Extended financial runway to more than 100 months
• Transitioned to board chairman, successfully replacing myself as CEO

Jul 2014 – Oct 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• As an early stage operator I led the business to product-market-fit while simultaneously managing the fundraising process over multiple rounds.

Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

• All Dry is a restoration company specializing in water damage restoration, mold removal, fire damage restoration, and other disaster cleanup services for both homes and businesses.

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

• With Popchew, creators can build, launch and grow their own local food brands in a matter of weeks.

Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Prescient AI is the #1 marketing mix modeling (MMM) tool for maximizing paid marketing efficiency and its impact on all of your revenue channels.

Sep 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

• Streamline builds tools to help special districts with online compliance.

Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Improovy makes home painting more affordable, easy, and fun.

May 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

• Attain is a one-stop shop for convenience store owners to buy inventory across all their suppliers with higher reliability, price transparency, and product discovery.

Apr 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Azra Games is a video game developer founded by Mark Otero that creates blockchain-based, collectible combat role-playing games (RPGs)

Apr 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Tandym is a financial technology company that provides digital payment solutions for businesses and consumers. Tandym offers branded payment suites, private-label credit cards, and digital debit cards.

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs

• Black Crow AI is a machine learning tool that uses AI to help businesses analyze customer data and make smarter decisions.

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs

• Pack is the digital experience platform, it combines the ease-of-use of a Shopify storefront with the speed and flexibility of a custom headless tech stack.

Feb 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

• Chamberlain Coffee is a coffee company founded by YouTuber Emma Chamberlain.

Feb 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

• Learnexus enables Learning & Development teams within enterprise companies to outsource any training need through on-demand access to contractors.

Feb 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

• Ophelia is a virtual treatment program for opioid use disorder (OUD) and other mental health conditions.

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

• The commerce enablement platform for modern brands. Operate smarter with integrated capital, cards, banking, payments, and data analytics.

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Relief is a mobile app that helps users reduce their debt. It can help users find overdue debts, negotiate with creditors, and track their debt reduction progress.

Dec 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

• Leading logistics management platform in LatAm

Dec 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

• Draftea is the leading real money gaming platform in the Spanish-speaking world.

Feb 2014 – May 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos · Sacramento, CA / Los Angeles, CA

• A creative agency for startups & leading brands.
• http://www.WeAreLoring.com

Mar 2011 – Feb 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• An 8 year veteran of Red Bull, I was responsible for a team of ~60, reaching a 17mm+ metro and the marketing function inside a regional $200m+ annual business.

Aug 2009 – Mar 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos

Aug 2008 – Aug 2009 · 1 yr

Aug 2005 – May 2008 · 2 yrs 9 mos