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.

The HOTH

‘Language is a work of art and should be regarded as such.’ – Schopenhauer (PPii, §289a)

As a project sherpa that gets the job done, I've worked with hundreds of clients to bring elegant form and function to their SEO and content marketing campaigns. No job was ever too small or too big as I've worked with enterprise clients such as Adobe and Google as well as local small business owners.

Freelance Writer

Crypto Answers

Crypto Answers was driven by a single prime directive—to bring our viewers the latest in Cryptocurrency and Blockchain news, resources, and mission-critical intel.

Our publication was for the cryptocurrency expert and layman alike. We wanted to give the cryptocurrency and blockchain world the serious, thoughtful, and fact-driven coverage that both the technology and community deserve.

Editor In Chief

FineLine Retail

Worked vigorously with the FineLine Retail executive team and spearheaded the new wave of e-commerce along the way.

FineLine Retail curates 12 brands, across 11 marketplaces.

Marketplaces included - FineLineRetail.com, Amazon, eBay, iguama, Jet, Newegg, Rakuten, Shop.com, Sears.com, Walmart.com & Wish.

Brands included - BabyLine, ChefLine, CraftsLine, FitLine, HomeLine, OfficeLine, PetsLine, StyLine, TacLine, TecLine, ToyLine & TraveLine.

Co-founded and led seed investment round for the new wave of e-commerce that was FineLine Retail.

Co Founder

www.FineLineRetail.info

Worked as the Chief Operating Officer and project lead developing, overseeing, and maintaining supply-chain processes, ensuring successful day-to-day operations whilst adhering to strict budgets, requirements, and deadlines. Total team size consisted of 10+ in-house, cross-department staff members in addition to our off-site, contracted software development team. 

Originally known as Discount Moda (#441 in Top 1000 eBay seller storefronts for 2014-15 according to WebRetailer).

Operating at the intersection of MAdTech and the Attention Economy.

"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best." -Theodore Isaac Rubin-

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