Cory Hymel

Crowdbotics

* Leadership role designed to synthesize the ambitions across all areas of Crowdbotics
* Bridge between the technical, product, and marketing teams
* Create research program from the ground up with leading universities 
* Author whitepapers with industry partners
* Public speaking events to share where the future of software development is going with AI

VP Product & Research

The Human Cloud

• Advising the implementation of a competitive intelligence terminal leaders can use to access hyper relevant freelance economy insights in seconds. 
• Advising ways to leverage emerging technologies such as AI, ML, and blockchain into freelance marketplaces.
• Providing thought leadership and strategy on leveraging technology to enable the human cloud.

Strategic Advisor

Gigster

*Managing 4 departments: Platform, NetOps, Product, and MetrX (acquisition)
*Direct report to CEO
*Main goal is creating company strategy and paths to revenue

VP of Product & Research

Helping lead research with Stanford and Berkeley into how distributed teams work at scale.

Head of Academic Partnerships

Leading all things blockchain. NFT's, crypto, enterprise, etc.

Director of Blockchain

Creating teams and process to build software via distributed employees. 

I also manage academic partnerships to help further research in distributed work. 

Personal areas of interest and specialization:
- blockchain                (incentive models and distributed systems architecture)
- IoT                             (sys architecture, deployment, etc.)
- embedded systems (bluetooth low energy (cypress semiconductor))
- finTech                      (international banking infrastructure, AML/KYC)

Senior Solutions Architect

Enventys Partners

....continuing to pioneer the Internet of Things.

Director of Connected Technologies

Enventys

Simble Co.

Launching iBeacons in real estate, conferences, and a consumer app.

Co Founder

Prime Notion Technologies, Inc.

Building custom enterprise mobile applications for Fortune 500 clients.

Co Founder & CEO

Pull Communications

Built platform that would allow museum curators to build self guided tours of exhibits.

Senior Developer

Resolute Games

Building 2D and 3D games for iOS and Android.

Senior Programmer / Developer

Fedex Institue of Technology

Was a member of the Dynamic Obstacle Handling Research team. Researching and building self driving tugs for FedEx.

Center for Advanced Robotics Research

VP of Product & Research @ Gigster | Innovating on the Future of Work

//--In my own words
Washed software engineer that was better at telling stories and painting visions that writing code. I usually find myself working in research or innovation teams due to attention deficient and boredom with solvable problems. I very much enjoy speaking, teaching, and sharing things I've learned with others. 


//--In my PR teams words
The root of Cory’s passion for the connected nature of tech enhancing the future of work began in the early 2000s in robotics research initiatives for the FedEx Institute of Technology. He went on to pioneer mobile helping enterprises develop strategies to mobilize staff workflows and collaboration in the pre-enterprise project management app era of “BYOD to work” in the mid-2010s. Seeing the promise of physical and digital integration, Cory brought physical products to life leading the Connected Technologies division at a hardware development firm. Beginning in 2018 Cory began researching and leading the Future of Work at Gigster as VP of Product and Research advocating for leveling outdated hierarchical structures within organizations. Cory is a futurist with the goal to continuously question the status quo. His research answers the questions that will define how the innovations of today will impact the work of tomorrow.

It was truly an honor to be invited by Hayden Brown and the Upwork team to come speak at their investor day on how AI is shaping the future of work. 

A couple key points: 

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1. Code is no longer a defensive moat:
Operate under the hypothesis that the cost to generate code is going to $0. 

Capex to write code used to be a valid, defensible moat but with the insane progress AI code gen is making that's quickly going away. We're already seeing companies come out of Y Combinator with 2 founders and fleshed out platforms that in the past would have taken $Xm in funding to build. 

Example: 
We've been able to completely re-write a legacy java app using Cognition's Devin tool in about a day. 

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2. The best ideas will (finally) win
Research led companies will win. Full stop. 

This doesn't mean go hire a bunch of PhD's. 
What I mean by this is companies that foster internal experimentation and validate ideas with data can now quickly accelerate on those to gain market share....and it's literally never been easier to do this. 

Example: 
We had a hypothesis that injecting business context into GitHub Copilot would improve it. So, in 6 weeks we ran a study using 300 flex talent resources from Upwork and proved it. Then we doubled down and brought that to market. 

We had a whitepaper, empirical evidence, and usage data that gave us an edge. The code was the easy part. 
https://lnkd.in/eyeZyQaE

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Thank you again to everyone on Upwork team Sheri Baker, Peter Sanborn, Frisco C. and everyone else that helped prep and put on the session. 

Also, huge shoutout to my fellow panelist Gabriel Richman and Philip Rasori you guys were incredible!

VP Product & Research @ CoreStory | HCI research on AI’s impact to the SDLC

Anywhere Consulting

Anywhere Consulting is my boutique consulting and advisory practice that helps growing B2B tech companies grow and scale with AI.

Achievements as an advisor:
- Served as a mentor for early-stage founders at Techstars
- Served as an advisor for many pre-SeriesA CMOs & CEOs

Achievements as a consultant:
- Helped to scale Anyblock Analytics to a point of acquisition
- Helped to scale FerretDB to a point of leading position in their segment
- Helped to lay down the marketing ops foundations for OnsiteHub, HPEC, and many more scaleups

For testimonials, please do check my profile here or visit Anywhere Consulting's site -- https://anywhere.consulting/consulting

Founder and advisor

Forbes Technology Council

Council Member

Intercept

Intercept is a B2B marketing agency working with global technology companies. 

As a principal consultant, I helped them to set the foundations for their AI-driven marketing offering and consulting for mid-to-enterprise clients in B2B tech.

Principal Consultant

Techstars

Provided mentorship for web3 founders through the Techstars incubator program in partnership with the Algorand Foundation.

Mentor

Tatum

I helped Tatum, a web3 developer platform company, scale to a point of one of the highest Series A funding round of 2023 in the web3 space.

Chief Marketing Officer

KISSPatent | Intellectual Property For Startups

Chief Operating Officer

RebelMouse

Head of Insights

pslondon limited

Head of Digital Marketing

SapientNitro

Senior Digital Marketing Manager

Them London

Head of Social Media

In 10 words:
I help marketing leaders become AI-ready.

Why I do what I do:

Freedom has always been my north star.

It’s what led me from sociology and history into marketing. Trading academia for creative freedom and financial independence.

It’s what moved me from running my own agency in Hungary to leading teams at global agencies in London. Seeking a bigger stage, not just a safer one.

It’s what drove me to go fully remote in 2014. Years before it was the norm, so I could choose the clients and missions that mattered most.

Today, that same motivation powers my work with marketing leaders navigating the shift to AI. 
Because used right, AI doesn’t reduce creative freedom. 
It amplifies it. 
It buys back time. 
It preserves the freedom to focus where it matters most.

After a decade in-office leading creative teams, I spent another 10 years as CMO for B2B tech scaleups. Building marketing operations, mentoring teams, and shipping work that moves metrics.

Along the way, I wrote Leadership Anywhere, a book on asynchronous leadership, and co-authored the AI Ready CMO newsletter.

If you think we can work together here is how I can help:

👉 AI Ready CMO (Newsletter)

Get only the AI news that matters to marketing leaders. No fluff, just actionable context.
Sign up here or via the link in my profile -- https://aireadycmo.com

👉 Anywhere Consulting (Advisory & Consulting)

1:1 support and project-based consulting for marketing leaders and their teams.
Explore more at Anywhere Consulting -- https://anywhere.consulting

Not sure where to start?

Just DM me here. 
This is the platform I’m most active on. 
I try to reply to every message where I can be helpful.

Peter Benei

I am humbled and happy to announce that I have raised $5K for my cutting-edge longevity program. Here are the steps of the program:

- Move to Italy ($500)
- Rent a house by the sea w min 2 balconies ($2K)
- Daily walks by the sea (ideally 2x/d, free)
- Eat clean, healthy, local groceries ($500)
- Dine out 3x a week minimum ($500)
- A bottle of prosecco ($20)
- A bottle of wine ($20)
- Maybe another bottle of wine ($10)
- Weekend getaways 2x a month ($1K)
- Utilities, gas, etc ($550)

The program is flexible in terms of location & food choices. It is not flexible on the sea, getaways, prosecco, and wine.

Ideal outcomes:
- 10x overall happiness score
- 10x overall mental focus score
- 10x better microbiom & healthier body
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Helping Marketers Scale with AI | 💡 Founder of AI Ready CMO Community | 🚀 Advisor & Consultant to B2B Tech Leaders

Marketing is leading the highest ROI for AI (according to McKinsey's new 2025 AI report). Yet, only 6% of companies see true transformation. They do 1 thing fundamentally different:

While others "add AI" to their workflows,
high performers redesign their workflows entirely.
All so that they can become truly AI-driven.

But this is generic AI speech, I know. 
What does it mean IRL? 

You are NOT a winner if your workflow looks like this:

- Brief goes out
- Waiting time
(1-2 weeks if internal, 2-3 if you have an agency)
- Review & rebrief & revisions 
(every new stakeholder exponentially multiplies revisions)
- 1 revision = +1 week production time
(if you have a micromanager there, 2x everything lol)

By the time your campaign goes live?
The market has already moved on. 
Those Black Friday campaigns?
Yeah, I know you've started working on them in May.

You are part of the 6% WINNERS if:

- You killed the linear approval cycle
- You switched to rapid collaboration with AI
- You killed 'One Hero Asset' fetish
- You switched to unlimited variations with AI
- Your creative briefing is not a Word document
- Your creative briefing IS training data for AI

Almost no one is doing this. 
But no worries, those 6% who are right?
They will lead marketing into the future.
The rest can catch up (if they are still in business).
(they won't be)

We broke down the rest in today's briefing for CMOs.
Read it here - https://lnkd.in/dwnJcZge

The cheerleaders promising 10x productivity. 
The doomers predicting job apocalypse.
There is a middle path in AI.

Almost no one talks about the messy middle.
Where the actual work happens.

This is why we've sat down with Jing Hu.
We discussed what AI adoption really looks like:
(without the hype or the hysteria)

Here's what we unpacked:

→ AI raises the floor, but rarely the ceiling 

→ The more effortlessly you use AI, the harder it becomes to think without it 

→ AI trained on consensus always gives you...consensus (hello, mediocrity) 

→ You need to optimize for AI discovery while maintaining human authenticity

AI can handle execution at 70-80%. 
But idea generation, polish, and release decisions? 
Still firmly human territory.

As Jing put it: 

"If you no longer decide where your life is to go, what to say, and you no longer have your voice—what's the point?"

The middle path isn't sexy. 
It doesn't generate viral posts or sell miracle courses.
But it's where smart marketers are building advantage.

Read the full conversation → https://lnkd.in/dFaT27sF

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Subscribe to Jing Hu's newsletter, 2nd Order Thinkers, one of the most in-depth newsletters about AI here -- https://lnkd.in/drTqaDRE

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