Media Kit Dax Hamman

Dax Hamman

CEO & Co-Founder of FOMO.ai. Five-time founder, two exits, including Chango, acquired for $122M. Writer of Hard Part First and 84Futures.

Strong opinions with receipts: five companies, two exits, and twenty years at the front edge of ad tech and AI. Stories with actual endings, answers with actual numbers, and no pitch-mode.

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Three conversations I'm good in

1. Startups, founders & distribution (Hard Part First)

The thesis of the Hard Part First newsletter: technology is a commodity, so the hard part is customers, distribution, positioning, and pricing. Told through five companies and two exits.

  • "Your job as a founder is to build gravity" — what that means in practice
  • Raise the non-standard way: what SAFEs, venture math, and unicorn culture get wrong for most founders
  • Why services firms powered by AI are the next trillion-dollar category

2. Speculative futures: AI, work & life (84Futures)

84Futures is speculative futurist thinking: creative fiction written to help people genuinely imagine the possible futures ahead of us, from a CEO building in AI every day.

  • What if an AI decided to pay humans a universal income, just to harvest more human training data?
  • What if AI takes 80% of every job, but leaves all of the jobs standing?
  • What if the most valuable human skill left is checking whether the machines are right?

3. Marketing in the AI era (FOMO.ai)

What FOMO.ai sees helping hundreds of business owners drive sales and leads without paid ads, and where search is actually going.

  • Growth without paid ads: what actually works across hundreds of businesses
  • AEO and GEO: what actually gets a brand cited by ChatGPT, Claude, and Google's AI
  • The death of old marketing metrics, and what replaces them

Why listeners trust him

Quoted on the front page of The Wall Street Journal (Marketplace) 5x founder, 2 exits Chango → Rubicon Project, $122M CEO & Co-Founder, FOMO.ai Top 40 Digital Marketing Strategists (OMI) Speaker: SES New York & San Francisco, Brand Innovators Host of The Achievers Show (30+ episodes) Bylines: Campaign, ClickZ, Search Engine Land, MarTech

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"My guest today is Dax Hamman. He's a five-time founder with two exits, including Chango, which was sold to Rubicon Project for $122 million, and he's spent twenty years doing the same thing over and over: taking whatever shiny new technology everyone's excited about and turning it into something businesses can actually use. Right now that's AI, as CEO and co-founder of FOMO.ai, where he helps hundreds of business owners grow without paid ads. He writes Hard Part First for founders, and 84Futures, speculative fiction about where all of this is taking us, and he's been quoted everywhere from The Wall Street Journal down. Dax, welcome."

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