Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday
Born	June 16, 1987 (1987-06-16) (age 29) Sacramento, California, U.S.
Occupation	Author, Marketer, Entrepreneur
Alma mater	University of California, Riverside
Genre	Nonfiction
Notable works	Trust Me, I'm Lying ; The Obstacle Is the Way
Spouse	Samantha Hoover[1]

Ryan Holiday (born June 16, 1987) is an American author, marketer, and entrepreneur.^[2] He is a media strategist, the former Director of Marketing for American Apparel and a media columnist and editor-at-large for the New York Observer.^[3][4][5][6]

Career

Holiday began his professional career after dropping out of college at the age of 19.^[1] Ryan briefly attended University of California, Riverside, where he studied political science and creative writing.^[7] He worked for Tucker Max, the controversial fratire author.^[2][8] Holiday worked with Tucker Max to orchestrate a media craze by trying to get Planned Parenthood to name a clinic after him, and previously created a boycott of Max's work as part of a movie launch.^[9] Later, Holiday would work with Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power, on Greene's 2009 New York Times bestselling book, The 50th Law.^[10] Today, he still advises or works with a variety of bestselling authors including Max, Greene, Timothy Ferriss, Tony Robbins, and Food Babe's Vani Hari^{[11][2][12][13]} Holiday served as Director of Marketing for American Apparel and as an adviser to founder Dov Charney.^[6][10][14] He left the company in October 2014.^[15][16][1] He has been responsible for a number of media controversies, and written extensively on the topic of "media manipulation"^[4][17]

In February 2014, Holiday was named Editor-at-Large of the New York Observer's technology and business section^[18]

Holiday has also written for Forbes, Fast Company, The Huffington Post, The Columbia Journalism Review, ThoughtCatalog, Medium.com and the New York Observer, where he is the media columnist.^{[19][20][21][22][23][24][25]}

Books

In July 2012, Holiday's first book Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator was released by Portfolio/Penguin.^[26] The book purports to expose flaws in current online journalism system and catalogs the author's exploitation of them.^[27] It debuted on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list.^[28] Holiday’s second book Growth Hacker Marketing was originally published in September 2013 by Portfolio/Penguin and then expanded into a print edition in 2014. The book attempts to show how traditional marketing efforts (billboards, press releases) are no longer the most effective, and why growth hacking is cheaper and more effective in today’s market.^[29] The book uses companies such as Facebook, Airbnb, Dropbox, and Uber as examples and was named one of Inc. Magazine's top 10 marketing books of 2014.^[30][31] Holiday’s third book The Obstacle Is The Way, was published May 1, 2014, also by Portfolio/Penguin.^[32] The book is based on the Stoic exercise of framing obstacles as opportunities.^[32] The book has sold more than 100,000 copies and was reportedly read by the New England Patriots during their 2014 Super Bowl Victory over the Seattle Seahawks as well as distributed through the locker room of the Seahawks in the following offseason by the team's front office..^[33]

As of December 2013, Holiday is reportedly writing a book with Cash Money Records founders Bryan "Birdman" Williams and Ronald "Slim" Williams.^[34] His last book was published in June 2016, "Ego is the enemy"

References

External links

• Ryan Holiday on Twitter