Objective

Ryan Holiday is a #marketer, #author, #stoic, and entrepreneur who started his career by manufacturing controversy for Tucker Max. [1][2] Later, at 19, Holiday dropped out of college to apprentice under Robert Greene—author of The 48 Laws of Power—and went on to become the Director of Marketing for American Apparel. [1][3][4]

His book Trust Me I'm Lying exposed methods of #media_manipulation by chronicling his utilization of them; popularizing the concept of Trading Up The Chain. [4] His creative agency, Brass Check has since advised clients like Google, TASER, and Complex, as well as prominent authors like Neil Strauss, Tony Robbins, and Tim Ferriss. [1]

Holiday has authored of seven books, including The Obstacle Is The Way, Ego is the Enemy, The Daily Stoic, and Perennial Seller. He has written for the New York Observer, FastCompany, Forbes, Huffington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, Guardian, Thought Catalog, and Medium.

Holiday, through his books, articles, and lectures, has been credited by the New York Times with the increasing popularity of stoicism; an ancient Greek school of philosophy. [5]

Subjective

In 2014, I found Ryan on Facebook and sent him a Dead Letter message (shown below) thanking him for helping to inspire my Facebook Ads Prank and the subsequent explosion in the media. To my surprise, he responded and asked to interview me on his Media Manipulator series. [6]

References

1. Ryan Holiday: About, ryanholiday.net

2. Tucker Max's Publicist Is Really Good At His Job, austinist.com

3. Reclaiming Their Moment, nytimes.com

4. Keen On… Ryan Holiday: Confessions Of A Media Manipulator, techcrunch.com

5. Ryan Holiday Sells Stoicism as a Life Hack, Without Apology, nytimes.com

6. Exclusive: Behind the Facebook Prank That Gamed Reddit [...], observer.com

Contexts

• Former #growth-hacker