Kennan Davison
CEO at Icon (The AI Admaker, Peter Thiel's Founders Fund). College dropout.
Solo-founded Skio ($15M+ ARR & profitable, $8M seed, 50+ teammates).
Previously: Pinterest, Hulu, W+K (ad agency), Top 200 North America League of Legends (100M+ players), Y Combinator S20 (solo founder), Columbia (transfer, dropout again).
Introducing Icon, The World's First AI CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) // Peter Thiel's Founders Fund just doubled down on Icon // Introducing Icon, The World's First AI Admaker // Skio: $10M ARR + Profitable in 3 Years // Icon.com $12M AMA
Observations:
- Self-promotion is key in upward mobility despite being less tasteful
- It's good to overpromise when it's okay to underdeliver
- "When there's doubt there is no doubt" can go wrong
- Oversharing is either really good or really bad
- Annoying people win
- Response time predicts success
- Index funds & retirement accounts mute upward mobility
- Everyone successful in business is neurodivergent or has a massive chip on the shoulder (probably both)
Concepts I like:
- Ikigai
- Thoughts are things
* I use AI + ghostwriters to do my X/LinkedIn posts :-)