Kennan Davison
CEO at Icon (The AI Admaker, Peter Thiel's Founders Fund).
Chairman, Founder at Skio (CEO 2021-2024, $15M+ ARR & profitable, $8.4M seed).
Previously: Pinterest, Hulu, W+K (ad agency), Top 200 NA LoL, YC S20 (solo founder), Dropout.
Peter Thiel's Founders Fund leads a 2nd round into Icon // Introducing Icon, The First AI Admaker // Skio: $10M ARR + Profitable
Observations:
- Self-promotion is key in upward mobility despite being less tasteful (hence this page)
- 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
- What you wear results in a costume or uniform
- 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 :-)