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.

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Michael Spencer

AiSupremacy

AI Supremacy is the name of my flagship Newsletter, but I also do analysis, research and curation on the semiconductor industry, quantum computing, robotics & physical AI in addition to other topics including startups, Venture Capital, technology trends and AI news at the intersection of tech, business, society and culture.

Founder

Last Futurist  

The "Last Futurist" launched on November 17th, 2019 and is a futurism / AI content platform, currently just a blog. You can find its original launch here: https://lastfuturist.com/  (this website has been shut down). 

It combines breaking news, AI, and Op-eds on technology and the future into a coherent whole.

The Last Futurist 

Freelance Copywriter; Social media, Blogger, Ghostwriter, Content strategist, Inbound leads.

I create content every day to empower brands, drive leads and create social proof. 

I specialize in managing corporate LinkedIn accounts for brands, startups and media companies, to scale them faster. 

I'm a content marketer that works as a freelance copywriter, B2B marketer, blogger and ghostwriter. I excel at building corporate LinkedIn and Twitter pages for SMBs, startups, while providing blog content that's fresh, readable and of actionable value.  

I also do consulting for Brand development, Personal branding, Social media, B2B brand awareness and lead gen. I advise C-level executives as well on how to build a content strategy to boost their influence. 

With an avid interest in the new consumer and Millennials and consumer and retail trends: 

I think a lot about the future of technology and I'm implicated in fields such as Retail technology, FinTech, IoT, cloud POS, SaaS, unified commerce, omnichannel branding I write on Artificial intelligence and social trends as they relate to the future of work, business and digital branding. 

I have an on-going interest in Millennial marketing, Digital media, startup marketing, growth-hacking, creating quality content that's actionable, and networking with other freelancers, entrepreneurs and evangelists. I'm committed as well to social themes such as women in technology and the rising importance of Asia in the global information economy. 

With over 700 Pulse articles and 80k followers, I have an active history of being featured on Pulse channels such as Retail & Ecommerce, Social Media, Marketing & Advertising, Asia Pacific, VC & Private Equity, Banking & Finance and Millennials, among others. 

You can follow me to read my latest writing here: 

https://substack.com/profile/21731691-michael-spencer?utm_source=user-menu

Content Marketing & Copywriting

Self Employed

July 2015 to Sept, 2017. Resumed again October, 2019.

Newsletter Author and Technology Influencer - 2-time LinkedIn Top Voice 

Thirdshelf

In my daily life at Thirdshelf, I was implicated in a number of activities, such as: 
•	Copy-writing
•	Social media animation 
•	Community management 
•	Retail marketing influencing
•	Content editing 
•	Content automation writer 
•	Email marketing 
•	Content strategy 
•	Brand Development
•	Business Development
•	LinkedIn Pulse blogging

Content Manager

Intema Solutions Inc.

•	Copywriter & blogger (Digital Marketing)
•	Technical Support
•	QA & Testing
•	IT Documentation
•	User-Guide Creation & Maintenance
•	Video Tutorial Creation
•	Customer Service
•	User Administration 
•	Webinar Hosting
•	Trouble-Shooting
•	Educational Portal Creation & Maintenance
•	Market Research & IT trends analysis

Technical Support Specialist

Sanimax

Involved in Migration from XP to Windows 7 and Server 2003 to Server 2008 R2.

IT Internship - Sanimax 					Jan 2014 - April
	Pilot Windows 7 migration USMT
	Application compatibility testing XP to Windows 7
	Active Directory verification & profile editing
	Maintaining workshop laptops 
	Client and Application Inventory 
	Cisco study guide formulation

IT Technician Intern

Dr Shanon's Office

	Answered & screened medical calls
	Updated and created medical files 
	Retrieved relevant medical information in Municipal Health Databases
	Greeted patients and managed Dr's scheduled appointments and drop-ins
	Data entry, filing and medical records

Medical Secretary

Montreal Reproductive Center

IVF Coordinator

Indie Writer #1 Machine Learning Newsletter AiSupremacy | Tap the 🔔 on my profile

I am an emerging tech analyst that covers industries like AI, the semiconductor AI chip industry, robotics, quantum computing and others areas of exponential tech in Newsletter articles and in news curation as a service. 

I have built a new community for AI enthusiasts called AI Vanguard Society. Join link: https://ai-vanguard-society.mn.co/share/XU4Mw0F8pkyFXYRy?utm_source=manual

LinkedIn is not my main platform, for my full insights: see here: https://www.ai-supremacy.com/notes

My flagship AI Newsletter is read by over 160,000 readers as of May, 2025. 

 My A.I. newsletter AiSupremacy is rated #1 in Machine learning and is the fastest growing A.I. Newsletter on Substack, as of early 2022. 

I'm fascinated by all things artificial intelligence, innovation, business, content, automation and futurism. 

Named a LinkedIn Top Voice in 2016 | & 2017 Ranked #2 in Marketing and social, I'm an amateur futurist and indie influencer.

You can contact me at michaelkspencer 2025 at gmail dot com.

I unlock some of the best voices in AI in my publication that can be read here: https://www.ai-supremacy.com/

July 2015 to Sept, 2017. Resumed again October, 2019. 

You don't hear much about the affordability crisis on LinkedIn. Or even much about the tighter labor market. You'd think a professional platform would talk about the ground reality? But the reality that our young workers face doesn't sell Ads or promote the PR of BigTech companies. 

A platform that isn't in touch with GenZ. Meanwhile in reality, the unemployment rate for Americans between 20 and 24 just hit a ten-year high (excluding the pandemic). (see infographic below). 

Capitalism “isn’t working for young people,” the venture capitalist Peter Thiel told The Free Press this last week according to an Op-Ed by Derek Thompson. 

Scott Galloway seems to see himself as the spokesperson for this generation. He says he "believes young Americans are fed up with a country they’re raised to love but that doesn’t love them back." How true but how tragic? As an older generation holds on to power they are damaging the future, and it's not just a brutal labor market, the environment or national debt they are leaving the next generation. 

"Our spending priorities (entitlements), tax policies (capital gains and mortgage interest deductions), and fiscal priorities (bail-outs of incumbents) are the greatest transfer of wealth from young to old in history."

So why are Derek Thompson and Scott Galloway writing about this topic so much? Because demographics matters to how the future turns out. Are young people screwed in a world of AI, automation, workslop, inflation and wages that don't keep up with the cost of living? Where the average home buyer now skews 40 and the average young person plans on not getting married?

The unemployment rate among 16- to 24-year-olds is 10.5% — the highest since the pandemic and, excluding that period, the highest since 2016. Zoomers (GenZ) report feeling more lonely, depressed, and anxious, and less successful, than other generations. Why aren't we talking about this?

We are raising young people to follow the K-shaped recovery down, down in opportunity. Down in the ability to thrive and maybe even to survive. Immigration is down and wealth inequality is rising, what could possibly go wrong? There's a hiring freeze and we are telling young people AI will take their jobs if they aren't "AI literate" (whatever that means). 

The average age of first-time buyers just hit 40, an all-series record, according to the National Association of REALTORS. Toxic politics and ideology has driven a gender divide among U.S. youth in many parts of the country. Young men seem to be adapting worse, many falling between the cracks. 

Americans expect the labor situation to get even worse. A lot of young people feel powerless in a world that is leaving them and their future behind. While Tech Oligarchs and Tycoons talk business as usual and the transformative power of AI. Ask a young person if this is remotely true. I find more wisdom about the future on 5 min of TikTok, than a week on LinkedIn. We need to become more honest with what's going on.

Founder, Newsletter operator, A.I. Writer, Emerging tech analyst.

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