Intrepid

Intrepid is a financial technology company that brings innovation, inspiration, and opportunity to every entrepreneur and business in the creator economy.

Our core product "Superstar" is a creator marketing management software designed to automate the way data-driven marketing teams operate. It offers an integrated platform to manage the entire lifecycle of creator marketing campaigns. 

The objective is to streamline processes from the creator discovery phase to payments, all while leveraging data-driven insights and fostering enhanced collaboration among stakeholders.

I recruit customers, partners and lead our global community.

Co-Founder | Community | Growth 

Activate America

Producer of Amplified Avondale https://www.instagram.com/amplifiedavondale/ 

Activate America leads urban transformation and regenerative placemaking projects, creating vibrant cultural hubs for economic revitalization and fosters community connection and cultural diversity.

As the Founder and CEO of Activate America, I orchestrated a transformative journey that significantly impacted the local community. We've achieved remarkable milestones:

Community Development: Our festival transitioned from a homogenous gathering into a diverse and inclusive event, with over 1,000 monthly attendees representing a rich tapestry of backgrounds, fostering an inclusive sense of community and cultural diversity.

Revenue Growth: Doubled and tripled revenue for local merchants, contributing to the economic vitality of the community.

Urban Revitalization: Pioneered the creation of a net-new entertainment district, catalyzing urban revitalization and cultural enrichment.

Founder and CEO

Delivering over a hundred keynote speeches, panels, and moderated discussions on Fintech, Modern Banking, Web3, Blockchain, AI, and the Future of Work.

Translating deep tech trends into human-centric insights, driven by my entrepreneurial, executive recruiting, and advisory background.

Public Speaker

Silver Creek Partners

Full time through 2016, select long term clients through 2023. Global reach.
Key Contributions:

Recruited and onboarded over 2500 professionals, driving substantial revenue growth and innovation for diverse organizations. Hundreds of customers from idea stage to F50.
Functional areas: Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Corporate Development
Roles: CSuite to individual contributor.
Google, SAP, SingTel, AIA, Flipt, Anheiser Busch, Salesforce,

Key Accomplishments:
Scaled startup engineering teams from initial hires to robust units of up to 40 engineers.

Led talent acquisition for a HealhTech startup from idea to a teams 140+ employees.

Led talent acquisition efforts for a Fortune 100 electronics manufacturer, resulting in 35 senior manager and executive hires within 12 months.

Scaled a Fortune 50 insurance company's newly formed division from a single employee to 35 senior hires in just 18 months, including relocating 25 senior executives to Singapore.

Oversaw organizational design and talent acquisition for a corporate development and Innovation business unit, culminating in 14 executive-level hires.

Drove early success for startups, consistently recruiting first customers in zero to one environments.

Founder | Executive Recruiter

Intrepid Ventures

Intrepid Ventures was a Blockchain and Web3 startup studio and innovation lab for founders and chief innovation officers.

Customer-facing leader with a proven track record of success in growing and engaging communities, launching successful events, and building relationships in the blockchain and Web3 space.

Grew a global invite-only community from 0 to 30,000+ members in 18 months. Community led insights and guidance helped to shape the thinking of community members and position them for success in the rapidly evolving blockchain and Web3 space.

Developed and launched more than 20 sponsored events across Southeast Asia through ecosystem partners including Visa, Prudential, AIA, IFC World Bank, IBM, and others, attracting over 10,000 attendees. 

Facilitated community-driven innovation and collaboration, resulting in the launch of multiple successful blockchain/crypto products across insurance, fintech, security, and gaming.

Intrepid Ventures | Co-Founder | Blockchain & Web3 Venture Studio

Creator Economy | Influencer Marketing | Community | Sales and Partnerships | Recruiting

I help Influencer Marketing teams unify, automate, and scale their operations so they can focus on growth vs. administrative tasks.


I've recruited and helped build amazing teams (onboarded 2500+ professionals).
I've designed and built global communities from zero to 30K+.
Designed, launched and produced 18 Music and Art Festivals, 5 large scale conferences and 100+ events
Co-founded 4 startups in  Blockchain, Healthech, Fintech and AI/Automation.

Zach Piester

Daniel Markovits

LinkedIn

Creator & Community Manager - EMEA

Grishin Robotics

Targeting Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A investments in the US and UK.

Grishin Robotics has invested in several category-defining companies including Ring (acquired by Amazon for $1B), Spin (personal mobility, acquired by Ford), Zipline (last-mile drone delivery), Starship (last-mile robot delivery), and Eero (smart home wi-fi system, acquired by Amazon).

Reach out if you're a stellar founder looking to gain traction!

Venture Scout

Minute Media

Enhanced new and existing traffic from social, organic, and referral sources. Developed and implemented tools and frameworks to drive growth. Proactively participated in design and execution of strategic partnerships outreach. Optimized quality and retention of the brand’s users, while improving monetisation margins.

• Boosted monetization margins from 10 to 30%.
• Executed partnership campaigns across 14 markets globally, including joint ventures and cross-content deals.
• Played an integral role in growing SEO/organic numbers from 5% to 30%.
• Ensuring the tools & frameworks to deliver our growth plans are in place both internally and externally.
• Cross-functional collaboration with the BI, product, legal, tech and commercial teams.

Head of Growth & Community

Managed brand’s Latin America growth and business development across all properties. Served as in charge of the brand’s content strategy on Facebook. Coordinated with the commercial and editorial team regarding the execution of campaigns.

• Boosted brand’s Latin America unique users by 500% to 15M a month.
• Developed and maintained relationship with BI, legal, product, tech, and commercial teams.

Latin America Growth and Partnerships Manager

• Assembled our influencer network from the ground up, onboarding 2000+ partners and reaching 1B+ digital impressions.
• Manage, support, and nurture strategic creators. Help these creators ramp up their sharing and audience growth while improving content quality.

Creator and Influencer Manager Lead

Created, edited, and organized engaging content for 90min’s social networks and mobile app. Developed and directed LatAm content team in Minute Media's flagship brand. Created content strategy and worked on actual deliverables. Ensured timely delivery on traffic targets set by management.

• Developed 2000+ pieces of content with over 100M reads.
• Served as in charge of initiating and defining process to administer strategic partnership efforts.

Content Manager

Adgorithms LTD

Directed a portfolio of over 30 clients across gaming and tech industries. Held the overall responsibilities for training and on-boarding of new clients. Delivered effective assistance to clients in developing and optimizing campaign strategies.

•	Boosted portfolio revenue by 50% to $5M ARR.
•	Reduced 20% churn by cultivating strong relationships.

Sr. Account Manager

Creators + Community + Sports @ LinkedIn | Venture Scout | I help CEOs, execs, VCs, athletes & brands stand out and build authority

I’m a community builder and strategist with a background in scaling creator programs, executing partnerships, and shaping content ecosystems across sports, finance, media, and tech.

At LinkedIn, I’ve been part of the editorial and product team shaping how top athletes, execs, creators, and brands show up on the platform. From onboarding Lewis Hamilton to launching scaled video programs and amplifying executives' voices through editorial campaigns, I’ve helped over 500+ high-impact members grow their audience and influence. I’ve also supported major product rollouts like collaborative articles and the new immersive video tab, bringing feedback from the community directly into product decisions.

Before LinkedIn, I led growth and partnerships at Minute Media across global markets — building out their influencer network from scratch (2000+ creators, 1B+ impressions), driving user growth across LatAm, and boosting monetization through SEO and cross-platform deals.

I didn’t start out planning this path. I just kept following what made me curious: how communities form, how content spreads, and how creators (and now athletes and execs) shape culture. That curiosity has led me across continents — from Tel Aviv to London — and through roles that have mixed editorial instinct, product feedback, talent strategy, and partnership growth.

I'm especially passionate about helping people show up more authentically online — not just for the algorithm, but for their community. If it sits at the intersection of storytelling, strategy, and real human connection, I’m probably already in it.

In short: I help people build a presence and a community that opens doors.

Co-Founder

Club created to serve as a continuous bond between the diaspora community and the State of Israel.

• Successful crowdfunding campaign & world wide media coverage
• 150+ players from 25 different countries 
• Currently in Liga Gimel (5th division) of the Israeli Football League

Dani Markovits

🚨 JUST IN: The streaming wars just ended

Netflix announced this morning it's acquiring Warner Bros., HBO, and HBO Max for $82.7 billion. 

What Netflix gets:
1/ Century of IP: Friends, The Sopranos,Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, the entire DC Universe (Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman) and much more...
2/ HBO's prestige brand
3/ Physical production capacity at WBD's global studio facilities

Potential implications: 
1/ Netflix just became a licensing monopoly
2/ The “Netflix is a tech company” era ends
3/ Streaming bundling becomes inevitable

Bank of America called it succinctly: 'If Netflix acquires Warner Bros., the streaming wars are effectively over'

One thing is certain: If regulators approve, Hollywood will never look the same.

CCO @ Shake Content | Ex LinkedIn | I help CEOs, execs, VCs & brands stand out and build authority on LinkedIn

After 4 years at LinkedIn and working with hundreds of executives, CEOs, and industry experts, I've heard the same fear over and over:

'I don't want to come across as promotional or cringy'

So they don't post. They don't share. They stay silent.

Here's what I've learned: The best LinkedIn content isn't promotional at all.
It's:
1/ The lessons you learned from a project that failed
2/ The counterintuitive insight from 10 years in your industry
3/ The question everyone's thinking but nobody's asking
4/ The honest take on where your field is heading

You don't need to talk about your product. You don't need to humble-brag. 
You just need to say something worth reading.

The executives with the biggest followings? 
They teach more than they sell
They share more than they pitch
They add value first.

But here's the thing...

If you DO want to occasionally post about your company, your product, or that award you just won? Do it anyway.

One promotional post among ten valuable ones isn't cringy.

We're allowed to be proud of our work. We're allowed to celebrate wins.

F*** it... You earned those medals.

This is Rony 🙌 

We met on LinkedIn two years ago. Last week I got the chance to visit her at Google's Tel Aviv office.

LinkedIn gets a bad rep for being transactional. But I believe this is one of the few places where you can build genuine relationships with people you'd never meet otherwise.

This platform isn't just for deals and job posts. It's for finding amazing people.

Shoutout to Rony for the invite... and to LinkedIn for making the world feel smaller.

Life hack: always start a presentation with a meme.

Not only does it instantly break the ice, but it completely flips the energy in the room. 

And for the session I ran yesterday, it helped set the tone that business, fundraising and brand-building don’t have to be stiff, corporate, or intimidating.

I spoke at 'Beyond the Pitch: Getting Noticed by Investors & Media' hosted by Startup Grind London – a brilliant night designed to help early-stage founders cut through the noise and build visibility.

Huge thank you to Elinor for bringing me in and hosting such a great event. I was joined by an excellent lineup: David Soffer, Jordan Mulvaney, Josh Hart, Isabelle O'Keeffe, Maria Markusjan, and 🤖Chloe Hall.

Some takeaways I shared with the group:
1/ Visibility is a proxy for credibility. Most investors don't have time to deep-dive every deck.. but they notice founders who consistently show up.
2/ You don’t need authority to get attention. You need clarity, confidence, and a perspective worth following.
3/ Storytelling isn’t a “nice to have”. It’s a commercial asset that drives intros, hires, partnerships, and demand.
4/ The founders who communicate early build momentum early. 

The meme was a joke - but the message wasn’t.

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment to start showing up on LinkedIn, you’re already late.

The formula that changed my career wasn’t E = mc² 😆 

It was L = D × T → Luck = Doing × Telling

I used to think luck just found you. Like winning the lottery. You either got hit by it or you didn't.

Then I learned about 'luck surface area'. The concept (from Jim Collins, later popularized by James Clear) is simple but powerful:

The more you do, and the more you tell, the larger your luck surface area. 

And for the 'doing' part, you don't need to build rockets or start the next unicorn. Doing just means working on things you care about and getting better at your craft. And that's worth sharing.

For me, that 'telling' part happened here.. on LinkedIn. Sharing thoughts, stories, and ideas (usually without expecting anything back) has brought me opportunities, collaborations, and friendships I never could've planned for.

The biggest hack isn't some secret growth strategy. 

It's just: do interesting things, tell people about them, and be genuinely helpful.

That's it.

strongly held belief:

who follows you matters more than how many follow you

be known well, not well-known

One of the most inspiring uses of technology I’ve seen in sports recently.

Crystal Palace Football Club has rolled out a permanent headset for visually impaired fans - letting supporters follow the match in real time from their seats through a magnified live feed.

I believe this is a great lesson for anyone who builds community, content or audience:

1) Identity matters. These fans aren’t just spectators (with tech like this they become participants)
2) Tech isn’t optional. It’s meaningful when it removes barriers (not just adds features)
3) Storytelling evolves. Crystal Palace’s story isn’t about sponsorships or merch-sales (It’s also about inclusion, innovation, and connection)

For those of us in the creator-economy, community or media space, the parallels are clear:
- Your audience isn’t just numbers: they’re people whose experience you can elevate.
- Your platforms aren’t just distribution: they’re opportunities to make things accessible, authentic and impactful.
- Your brand isn’t just what you say: it’s what you enable.

If you’re building content or community on LinkedIn (or any platform):

Don’t just be visible. Be valuable.
Don’t just broadcast. Amplify access.

Because a story that changes someone’s experience? That builds trust. That builds connection.

Kudos to the mighty Palace 👏💙❤️

Hot take: Content is now as important as code.

Balaji said it best on the Andreessen Horowitz podcast:

'The founding engineer is the how. The founding creator is the why'

In 2026, every company will (should) have:
1/ A founding engineer 
2/ A founding operator 
3/ And a founding creator (even if that 'role' isn't titled yet)

I am a bit biased but this is where LinkedIn comes in. It’s where founders build trust, distribution, and demand long before the product ships.

And this is exactly why we built Shake Content.

We’re helping founders become the leading voices in their categories.. turning their expertise, their story, and their point of view into visibility,  authority, and  momentum.

The companies that win won’t just have great products. They’ll have founders who can lead the conversation.

Most of us use AI wrong.

We ask for answers (outputs) when we should be asking for questions (inputs).

Asking AI for answers is like having someone lift the weights for you. 

(it looks productive.. but builds zero strength).

Questions > answers

Vegamour just created a role that didn't exist 6 months ago.

Chief LinkedIn Advisor

I've been tracking interesting roles popping up on LinkedIn lately. This one def. stand out. 

A beauty brand is investing executive-level resources into a single platform. They're not spreading thin across TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter. They're going all-in on LinkedIn.

VEGAMOUR hired Iryna Kremin, a longevity expert, to create 'science-backed conversations' for their community. They're treating LinkedIn like a media channel where credibility compounds.

Here's what this signals:
• LinkedIn is becoming a primary business channel, not a secondary one
• Companies are realising that trust-building happens in feeds, not just in ads
• Executive attention is shifting from 'we should post more' to 'we need a strategy here'

The brands/companies winning on LinkedIn in 2025 won't be the ones posting occasionally. They'll be the ones treating it like the business asset it is.

If a hair care company is hiring a Chief LinkedIn Advisor, what does that say about where your industry is heading?

You're following the wrong people.

Not because they're bad. Because everyone else is following them too.

When 500,000 people are learning the same insights from the same person, that information has zero edge. It's already priced in.

The contrarian truth: 
Small following = mispriced asset.

It means the market hasn't discovered them yet. It means their ideas are still undervalued. It means you can still get in before the crowd.

This isn't about being nice to smaller creators. It's about information arbitrage.

By the time someone hits 100K followers, their best ideas have already been:
Recycled 1000 times
Packaged into courses
Absorbed by the algorithm

The people worth following right now? They make you uncomfortable. They challenge your assumptions. They have 2000 followers and say things no one else is saying. 

Here's what no one tells you: Building relationships with 'big accounts' is a vanity play. You're one of thousands trying to get their attention. The ROI is terrible.

But that person with 5K followers who's thinking differently? They'll actually respond. They'll actually remember you. And when they blow up in 18 months, you were there first.

Stop optimizing for status - Start optimizing for edge.

Who are some of your favorite LinkedIn creators & experts? Would love to show them some love!

The Big Shift for 2026

Brand building is no longer the job of the marketing team. It’s the job of every employee.

I just read an interesting NYT article that confirms what many of us are starting to see: the era of outsourcing brand credibility is ending.

Companies like Delta Air Lines, the LEGO Group, and DHL aren't just featuring their social media teams anymore. They're empowering engineers, maintenance techs, couriers, and designers to build the brand.

But here's what the article missed, and what I think is the real story for 2026:
LinkedIn is where this movement matters most.

While TikTok and Instagram get the viral moments, LinkedIn is where trust is built. When your software engineer shares insights about your product development process, when your customer service lead posts about solving a complex client challenge, when your logistics coordinator explains your supply chain innovations. 

People trust people more than logos.

Why this matters now:
→ B2B buyers are doing their research on LinkedIn, looking for authentic voices, not polished marketing 
→ Top talent evaluates companies based on employee voices, not career pages

The companies winning in 2026 won't be the ones with the best marketing team. They'll be the ones who've empowered every employee to share their expertise, their day-to-day realities, and their genuine enthusiasm for the work.

I don't think this isn’t just a trend. It’s a shift in how brands grow.

The best communities in the next decade won't be measured by member counts or engagement metrics.

They'll be measured by how people feel when they leave the room.

Hampton gets this. They just posted a job for a Retreat Manager.

Someone who maps dependencies, researches facilitators, scouts venues throughout the year, and designs run-of-shows with intention.

The specificity of the role is a huge signal 
(this is not the usual 'events manager' position)

For a decade, we chased (digital) scale. More members. Bigger Slack channels. Zoom calls with hundreds of faces nobody remembers.

The pendulum is swinging back... big time.

This role isn't about logistics. It's about creating the conditions where something actually happens between people.

You can't automate serendipity. 

Kudos to Anna (Cogswell) Kolwicz and the Hampton team.

Couldn’t be happier for my friend David Walsh and the entire Limelight team 🚀

They’re building the best B2B creator platform in the game... and this new funding round + product launch is just more proof of that momentum.

As a user, I can’t recommend Limelight enough. What they’re building is genuinely changing how brands understand influence and content-driven revenue.

Huge congrats to the whole team. I know they are just getting started.

Founder & CEO @ Limelight | B2B Creator Marketplace | 3x Founder | MBA Mentor

Today I’m announcing our $2,100,000 funding round 🎉💰
And a HUGE NEW PRODUCT LAUNCH!! ...

Our brand new AI agent for Social Listening is live.

It can:

→ Research your company
→ Precisely define your ICP
→ Identify all of your competitors

Then automatically surface buyer intent from social content and turn it into sales pipeline. 

Early users are raving about it already!!

And just a few weeks ago,
We won the Global Pitch Competition!
On stage at SaaStock (€1M prize money)

THIS. IS. WHAT. MOMENTUM. LOOKS. LIKE.

Here’s why investors are loving Limelight

👇🏼👇🏼

Everyone is talking about personality-led marketing.

- Niche B2B creators are stealing trust.
- Employees are becoming mini media brands.
- Buyers follow PEOPLE, not 40-page whitepapers.

But the problem - up until now?

Everyone KNOWS influence drives revenue.

Yet nobody can measure it.

So budgets have stayed trapped in paid ads & cold outbound.

Limelight SOLVES this problem.

We’re showing brands - how CONTENT drives REVENUE.

We are making influence marketing performance-based.

So brands can track:

🔎 Which post led to $142,000 in pipeline
🔎 Which creator drove 237 product signups
🔎 Which campaign closed $1.9M new business.

(All REAL Limelight case studies! 📈)

We’re turning B2B influence from a “nice-to-have branding play” into a scalable revenue engine.

Big SHOUT out to our new investors for believing in us

Amit at SNR (led the round!) 
Eran at Savyon Ventures 
Kenneth at BackFuture
Kaan at First Degree 
Josh at OpenSky 
Kirby at Ascend

And many others like Ran Makavy, Gert Lanckriet, Suhit Gupta, Amir Ashkenazi, Mike Head, Eli Schwartz, Tom Waddington, Dan Murray🧠, Garrett Scott, Michel Lieben 🧠 & Alex Vacca 🧠🛠️.

A group of incredible operators/investors who know personality-led growth will define the next decade of GTM.

What’s next?

Goal remains the same:
→ Hit $10M ARR with a team of 10.

This funding round lets us:

⚡ Build even faster
⚡ Hire a few elite engineers + AMs
⚡ Push deeper into creator-based attribution
⚡ Power influencer programs for every GTM org

Huge gratitude to my tiny but might team Youngjae JI, Demir Capan, Blas C. and Janine Bulao. 

And most importantly...

The creators and brands (HubSpot, Webflow, Clay + 100s more) who are building this category WITH us 💪🏼

THIS IS JUST THE START.

PS. if you sign up as a new customer in the next 48 hours you get your 2nd month free! (DM me and I will do it for you)

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