Ryan Holiday is a 🏷️#marketer, 🏷️#author, 🏷️#stoic, and entrepreneur — and a former 🏷️#growth-hacker — who began his career manufacturing controversy for 📝Tucker Max. At nineteen, he dropped out of college to apprentice under 📝Robert Greene — author of 📝The 48 Laws of Power — and went on to become Director of Marketing for American Apparel.

His book 📝Trust Me I'm Lying chronicled the methods of 📝Media Manipulation he had used, popularizing the concept of 📝Trading Up The Chain. His creative agency, 📝Brass Check, has since advised clients including 📝Google, TASER, and Complex, along with prominent authors 📝Neil Strauss, 📝Tony Robbins, and 📝Tim Ferriss. Holiday has authored seven books — including 📝The Obstacle Is The Way, 📝Ego is the Enemy, 📝The Daily Stoic, and 📝Perennial Seller — and writes for outlets including the New York Observer, Fast Company, Forbes, the Huffington Post, the Columbia Journalism Review, the Guardian, Thought Catalog, and Medium. Through his books, articles, and lectures, the New York Times has credited him with the resurgence of Stoicism, an ancient Greek school of philosophy.