Ben Parr

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AI Founder, Investor, Columnist, and Co-Founder of Octane AI

  • Coworking with AI: How to Leverage AI for Productivity and Work

    Entrepreneurship 01: Lessons from Starting and Building Octane AI

    The Future of AI Investing: Trends Investors and Founders Should Know

    Marketing When There’s Scarce Attention: Lessons from the Best-Selling Marketing Psychology Book Captivology

    From Holograms to Teleporters: How Technology Is Going to Change Tthe World in the Next 5, 10, 20 and 50 Years

  • $15,000-$25,000 plus travel

  • Los Angeles, California

Ben Parr is an award-winning entrepreneur, investor, journalist, author, and AI expert with a career dedicated to exploring the impact of technology on our futures.

Ben is President and Co-Founder of Octane AI, a profitable AI platform for ecommerce brands that powers AI-enabled insights and quizzes. Octane AI, founded in 2016, is backed by General Catalyst, Bullpen, and other top Silicon Valley investors and was named the Best Storefront App award by Shopify. He is also Managing Partner & Co-Founder of Theory Forge Ventures, a pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital fund investing in AI-native startups and founders.

Ben is an influential voice in the AI community, serving as an AI columnist for The Information and authoring his popular newsletter, The AI Analyst. Ben started his career as Co-Editor and Editor-at-Large of Mashable, where he wrote over 2,400 articles and interviewed the world’s top technology and media leaders. Ben was also a technology columnist and commentator for CNET. He is the author of the award-winning book, "Captivology: The Science of Capturing People's Attention", named the top marketing book of 2015 by Strategy+Business Magazine. Parr currently sits on the board of directors of the Leila Janah Foundation and previously sat on the board of its sister company Sama, a leader in AI data training.

As a well-respected AI educator across platforms like TikTok, Twitter, Threads, and LinkedIn, Ben continues his mission to inform the public about the ever-evolving realm of AI. He has been featured in a variety of media, including ABC News, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, NPR, Fox News, USA Today, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and The New York Times. He is a member of the Forbes 30 Under 30 and an alum of Northwestern University. He is based in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York, but remains a die-hard fan of the Chicago Bears.

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Ben’s Previous Speaking Experience

Ben speaks on artificial intelligence, silicon valley, the psychology of marketing and attention, and the future of entrepreneurship across the globe. He’s spoken at AI Fest, Bits and Pretzels, and Google.

Ben Parr speaking on stage at the Startup Conference, holding a confetti blaster in his hand as confetti covers the audience. You can see his slides on a big projector behind him, show ing a gun with a bullet coming out of it.

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