Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday is the author of several bestsellers and a media strategy consultant. He dropped out of college at the age of nineteen and apprenticed under Robert Greene, the author of "The 48 Laws of Power." He has worked as a consultant for numerous bestselling authors and platinum-selling musicians. For many years, he served as the Director of Marketing at American Apparel, and his advertising campaigns have been studied by Twitter, YouTube, and Google, while being featured in Ad Age, the New York Times, and Fast Company. His first book, "Trust Me I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator"—which the Financial Times described as a "disturbing, astonishing book"—became a bestseller and is now taught at universities worldwide. He is also the author of "Growth Hacker Marketing," "Ego is the Enemy," and "The Daily Stoic." He lives in Austin, Texas, and writes for Thought Catalog and the New York Observer. He resides in a small farmhouse outside of Austin, Texas.