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.

Teddy Mitrosilis

Alto Studios

Executive Communications | We provide content and communications services for executives at venture capital, private equity and growth-stage companies.

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

The Mitrosilis Group

STRIVR

Lead Strivr’s Enterprise Consulting function with a focus of optimizing Strivr’s Professional Services business for growth and scale. 

Primary responsibilities of the function:

 - Identify opportunities to drive growth and scale across the Customer Organization
 - Conduct business and market needs analyses
 - Design solutions to improve business and organizational performance
 - Implement processes, systems, tools and standardization
 - Lead change management and upskilling across the Customer Organization

Head of Enterprise Consulting

Built, operationalized and led Strivr’s Enterprise Consulting function.

Primary Responsibilities:
 - Set vision and strategy for the Enterprise Consulting practice
 - Manage senior business and learning strategy consultants and Director-level personnel
 - Develop end-to-end immersive technology strategies that drive productivity, profitability, operational efficiency and sustainable growth for F500 clients
 - Partner with VP Sales on sales strategy, operations and enablement
 - Drive Professional Services sales strategy and revenue growth
 - Advise clients on how to meet their business objectives through organizational and workforce transformation
 - Build and nurture relationships with executive-level client stakeholders
 - Hire, train and develop key talent and high-performing teams

Notable Team Achievements:
 - Built Strivr’s go-to-market strategy for tech-enabled Professional Services
 - Developed the playbook for enterprise-wide immersive technology engagements
 - Drove $30M+ in enterprise SaaS and Services deals
 - Contributed to the launch of StrivrU, a new customer and partner onboarding program
 - Lead client engagements across Retail, Grocery, Distribution, Financial Services, Manufacturing industries, among others

Notable Client Achievements:
 - Walmart - 96% improvement in training efficiency
 - Fidelity - 10% increase in customer satisfaction in less than 6 months
 - Grocery Client - 6.5% increase in productivity in ~3 months

Director, Enterprise Consulting

Helped build, operationalize and scale Strivr’s Customer organization from infancy to 50+ employees.

Primary Responsibilities:
 - Help lead a pivot of Strivr’s core offerings, from a branded content business into an enterprise professional services business
 - Build, operationalize and lead Strivr’s Solutions Architecture function
 - Develop and take to market Strivr’s industry-leading immersive learning methodology
 - Drive operational excellence via scalable systems and processes across Professional Services, Pre-Sales, Customer Success, Operations and other functions
 - Deliver business transformation to clients through the strategic planning and execution of immersive technology solutions
 - Oversee scoping and management of project financials 
 - Implement performance management systems and programs
 - Hire, train and develop key talent

Notable Team Achievements:
 - Executed and managed $20M+ in Professional Services engagements
 - Grew customer base by 300% while sustaining nearly 90% customer retention
 - Established the Customer Org’s first project management processes and SOPs
 - Managed client engagements across Logistics, Automotive, Aviation, Retail, Utilities industries, among others

Notable Client Achievements:
 - Walmart - first company in the world to deploy immersive tech enterprise wide
 - Verizon - 97% of employees felt prepared when put in a dangerous situation

Director, Customer Solutions

Head of Production for Strivr, overseeing end-to-end content development and operations.

Strivr is a human performance training company that uses VR to help athletes and employees be better at what they do.

Head of Production

Fox (Film, TV and Sports)

Director, Digital Content

ESPN

Digital Editor, ESPN.com + ESPN Insider

Co-Founder + Managing Partner @ Alto Studios — Content for execs and companies | Head of Content | Author @ The Process

Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Alto Studios. We support executives at venture capital, private equity and growth-stage firms with content, communications and thought leadership.

A few stats about our clients:

• $11+ billion in AUM
• $17 billion in revenue
• $2.7 billion in exits (and counting!)

Executives work with us for various reasons.

Some common use cases and benefits:

1. Enhance Investor Relations (existing and future LPs)
2. Support talent acquisition (for their firms and portcos hiring key roles)
3. Increase trust and awareness in the market (more opportunities, better deal flow)
4. Fresher approach to PR / Comms (better brand reputation)
5. Scale marketing more efficiently (cost + time savings)

If you need content or communications support, learn more about Alto here: www.altostudios.com

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Now, the most important stuff:

• I have a wonderful wife and three kids (two girls + one boy)
• I played college baseball at North Carolina (Go Heels!) and love supporting young athletes.
• I still scratch my competitive itch through golf and ultrarunning.
• I love reading, writing and learning from interesting people.

Thank you for stopping by my profile. If I can help you, please let me know. God bless!

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