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Founder & CEO

Riwers

In my current position as the CTO, I continue to steer our Core Tech Team, maintaining a conducive environment for idea-sharing, goal-setting, and the seamless execution of technical standards across the company. My role extends to nurturing a culture of continuous learning and improvement among the team, ensuring we are at the forefront of technological advancements.

Supporting our sales department during pivotal customer engagements, I leverage my technical knowledge to foster trust and understanding with potential clients, aiding in the expansion of our customer base and contributing to the overall growth of the company.

Furthermore, my responsibilities include providing support on a variety of technical and interpersonal issues to all colleagues, facilitating an environment where challenges are addressed promptly and efficiently. Through regular 1:1 meetings, I engage with many colleagues, assisting them in improving their communication, leadership, and technical problem-solving skills, thereby nurturing a workplace culture that encourages personal and professional growth for every team member.

My overarching goal remains to be a catalyst for innovation, ensuring our technical strategies align with the evolving market demands and contribute significantly to achieving our company's long-term objectives.

Chief Technology Officer

Lead of Core Tech Team: As lead I am responsible to organise group of senior developers, prepare all our meetings, set goals which we want to achieve, bring new ideas to the table and help implement technical standards across the company. My goal is to be opened to all ideas, support the best way I can any colleagues which need it and help solve any issues coming our way.

People Lead: This role give me the privilege of connecting with colleagues on a more personal level through our 1:1 meetings. I actively listen to their concerns, understand their day-to-day challenges, and guide them towards career advancement.

Product Owner: Leveraging my technical expertise, I translate customer insights into actionable product stories. I'm able to consider and imagine diverse use cases and understand their impact on the development process.

Lead of Core Tech Team | People lead | Product Owner

Lead developer: Working as lead developer gave me responsibility of delivering quality product and taking care of our team at the same time. I believe when you have great people in your team, that most issues can be resolved by proper, opened and on time communication. At the same time I was responsible to design and develop whole backend architecture.

Head of Technical recruitment: Making sure we find fitting & skilled engineers for projects by conducting and refining interviews.

Lead developer | Head of technical recruitment

MEAN(mongo, express, angular, node) developer, working on web based microservices for energy sector with our client Enersis. I was responsible for designing application architecture(backend), making technical decisions, creating custom tailored software solutions and helping organize team before important deadlines.

Senior Software Engineer

Filmzie

MERN (React, MongoDB, Express, Node) development in Typescript

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

ERNI

MEAN(mongo, express, angular, node) developer, working on multiple solutions for Swiss client.

Professional Full-Stack Software Engineer

Millennium

Programming web applications based on .NET framework in C# and building JavaScript plugins to Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Full-stack Developer

Freelance Web Development

PHP Full-Stack developer

Don't know how to present yourself, showcase your skills, and sell yourself? Let's fix that!

✅ I'll teach you the most important communication techniques to appear professional and lead the conversation in your direction.
- No more "ah," "um." Just powerful questions and even more powerful silence.

✅ We'll define and present your strengths.
- It's all about positioning. Maybe you're already doing more than you think.

✅ We'll set your salary target higher than you've had so far. And we'll achieve it.
- Negotiation is easy when you know how to do it and how to show your value!

Does your career need the right direction?

Let's have a call!

- 👋 Hi. I'm Adam, a leader who will help you grow!

Adam Bilišič

Fixated

Building a next-generation digital media studio and talent representation firm with 'The Avengers' of the creator economy.

Chief Operating Officer

Nobody Studios

Radically rethinking how companies are built. Creating 100 revolutionary companies in 5 years.

Chairman, New Media Advisory Board

Creator Authority

Creator Authority is the one-stop shop for LinkedIn influencer campaigns.

Advisor

Alfan

Advisor to one of the largest digital talent, influencer marketing, and creator technology networks focused on the Middle East region. If you're looking to break into this exciting region with your content, let me know!

Advisor / Board Member

Spree

A healthier social feed.

Building a media company in the health and wellness industry using shoppable video to tell inspiring stories with creators and brands.

Please let me know if you want to join us on our mission to create a healthy, non-interruptive, positive social platform!

Chief Executive Officer

We Are Verified

Top-tier digital management agency (Insider's 2023 Top TikTok Agencies) focused on building businesses around creators that move culture including original content, NFTs, creator services on premium platforms, and influencer marketing campaigns, featured in MTV's 'Tana Turns 21'.

Wormhole Labs™

Building a live simulation of the real world generated by the power of the crowd, where users navigate the world as avatars to 'Wormhole', or teleport, to locations around the world to meet, chat, shop, and play.

Chief Executive Officer / Board Member

Facebook

Managed a team focused on signing and managing game live streaming talent, evangelizing new product to the market, and building programs for creators to find success on the Facebook platform. We give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.

Head of Gaming Creators, North America

Mobcrush

Built and managed creator network comprised of over 600,000 authenticated live-streamers. Based in Santa Monica, CA, Mobcrush is a technology and entertainment company at the epicenter of mobile gaming, live streaming and the creator-driven media revolution. The Mobcrush app, coupled with the newly announced ‘Go Live, Get Paid’ platform, provides a set of free tools and features that enable any mobile gamer to reach and grow an audience, where they are guaranteed to earn from $15 to $2,500 an hour for live streaming their gameplay. Mobcrush is venture funded by KPCB, Evolution Media, Raine Ventures, and First Round Capital.

Head of Creators

Studio71, LP

Oversaw the talent network, tech, and network operations teams at one of the largest influencer-driven digital entertainment companies, acquired by ProSieben.Sat1 in 2016 and received investment from TF1 and MediaSet in 2017. During this tenure the network grew over 700% by monthly views.

Digital Media Veteran / Building Digital Businesses, Moving Culture

Phil is a pioneer of the digital media revolution, working as a pre-YouTube professional web video producer in 2005, video content app creator before the smartphone revolution in 2007, an early exec in the MCN boom with two successful exits, and as the Head Gaming Creators at Facebook and Mobcrush, driving the live streaming and the creator-driven media paradigm shift. Currently, as CEO of Spree, Phil is building a media and technology company focused on shoppable video in the health and wellness space.

Previously, Phil was the Head of Gaming Creators, North America at Facebook and the Head of Creators at Mobcrush. In both roles, the departments saw significant growth working with top game streaming talent including Ronda Rousey, Disguised Toast, Corinna Kopf, Shroud, and Nate Hill, to name a few.

Phil was the COO of Studio71, one of the world's largest MCNs, growing the network from 1 billion to over 8 billion monthly views in 3 years with over 1,000 creators.

Before S71, Phil joined Fullscreen as the Head of Channel Partnerships as the 9th employee, completing his tenure as the VP of Networks. He grew the network to the largest MCN in the world (on comScore) in less than 1 year. He was the recipient of Fullscreen's first "Founders Award" for his role in building the industry-leading company.

In May 2006, Phil worked for Viva! Vision, who powered the #1 Latin channel designed specifically for mobile (Viva! Vision TV), the #1 Action Sports channel on V-Cast, and over a dozen mobile phone channels. Phil produced hundreds of hours of successful, digital-endemic original content.

In 2005, Phil created a comedy series for Turner's broadband channel SuperDeluxe.com, for which he acted as producer, director, and editor, called "Party Animals."  A trailer for the pilot was shown on national television when it placed top 5 in FX's "Make Your Own Pilot Competition."

Phil was also a popular comedian, performing at such prestigious LA venues as the Second City Los Angeles (and acting in their touring company aboard Norwegian Cruise Lines), the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater (improv program graduate), and comedy festivals across America. As a content creator, his videos have received over 100 million views on digital platforms bolstered by his work as a talent/producer on the YouTube channel "PronunciationManual" and co-hosts the "Two and a Half Sportsmen" podcast.

Phil Ranta

The out-of-control bump in health insurance costs is brutal for small businesses.

I can vouch. I run one of them.

The 66% estimated bump in premiums in California is already being felt.

By me.

I'm currently pricing that out for my team.

My napkin math puts me at an extra $10k+ I have to spend per month on insurance for my very small team, compared to a few years ago.

The cost of health insurance means I'm going to hire less people.

And each person I do hire is going to have to make a heck of a lot more revenue.

And that stress is going to mean less time for exercise, eating lousy food on the go, and less sleep.

Which will make them sicker.

Which will cause rates to rise even further.

This isn't a politically partisan post. This is a pragmatic business post.

How the heck are we the richest country in the world and so economically-disasterously terrible at keeping our workers healthy without destroying their finances?

CEO, Stealth Talent - Building Digital Businesses, Moving Culture / 20 yr Digital Media Veteran

Thank you to Favikon for featuring me at #14 on your influencer marketing Power 25.

I promise to wield my power as king, queen, and jester.

With an iron fist.

With a soft touch.

And as a ruthless cultural critic.

With my new found power, I now decree: “All influencer marketing shall be entertainment first and commercials second.”

I also decree: “Results are more important than attribution.”

And finally: “Low budgets can always be overcome with big creative.”

I’ll be awaiting my crown, scepter, and castle, which must be delivered to Mid-City Los Angeles post-haste!

Influencer marketing takes forever to figure out. But it's the fastest way to reach millions.

For years, marketers asked: does this actually work?
Influencer people kept defending their $1,500 reels.Then a few voices changed everything.

They didn't just talk.

They built it.

Shared what works, what doesn't.

We learned a lot from them.

Here are the 25 most influential voices in US influencer marketing right now.

Not theorists. Actual builders running real creator partnerships. They cover performance, content, micro campaigns, big brand deals.

Could we add more?

Yeah.

Tons of smart people in this space.

But these 25 are shaping things today.

If you work with creators, follow them.

IM Power 25 U.S.

Beehiiv has announced a significant suite of updates for its newsletter platform.

It's not fair to call them a 'newsletter platform' anymore.

I'll discuss the challenges and benefits for platforms and creators when a platform begins to become more of an 'everything store'.

Also in this edition:

📳 Syracuse Goes All-In on the Creator Economy
📝 TikTok Puts Up a Bulletin Board
💰 YouTube Courts Advertisers with Show ‘Premieres’
❤️ iHeart and TikTok Podcast Together
💪🏼 Jobs from TMZ, Team One, and Sepulveda Sanchez Accident Attorneys
🎭 …and a dank meme from yours truly!

Check out the full edition here >>> https://lnkd.in/gjFqY68Y

As always, if you like it, share it with everyone!

And a HUGE thank you to my sponsor RockWater Industries and Chris Erwin, the leaders in creator economy M&A. Reach out and sell your company for a boatload!

Just got back from the AI & Creativity Summit: LA Edition (thanks for the tix Shira Lazar!)

There were a ton of amazing companies doing wonderful work with tools that allow creatives to do what they do better, faster, and stronger.

Then there were the AI-forward creatives themselves.

Those were tougher for me.

I'll break down what I think they keep getting wrong in this edition of 'Grow 1%', and how I believe you can use AI without lying to yourself so you can feel better about using AI.

As always, if you like it, send it to everyone you know!

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