My Press Kit provides a concise overview of who I am, what I’ve built, and how I think—crafted for hosts, collaborators, and press. Includes bios in multiple lengths, speaking topics, media links, and assets for easy introduction or promotion. If you’re featuring me, this is everything you need in one place.
Biography
- One-Liner
- Brian Swichkow is a venture builder and narrative strategist who’s helped hundreds of startups scale through community-driven growth, automation, and digital empathy.
- Short Bio
- Brian Swichkow is a growth engineer, creative technologist, and founder of One Inc—a venture studio and startup incubator. Over the past decade, he’s worked with hundreds of Seed to Series B companies to scale audiences and automate operations. Known for his viral Reddit experiments and community-first strategies on Product Hunt and Hacker News, Brian’s now building MythOS—a platform that helps founders integrate storytelling, system design, and AI to scale with clarity and humanity.
- Full Bio
- Brian Swichkow is a builder at the intersection of automation, storytelling, and startup growth. As founder of One Inc, a venture studio and startup incubator, he’s spent over a decade helping Seed to Series B companies scale through community ecosystems like Reddit, Product Hunt, and Hacker News—often engineering virality through behavioral insights and code.
He first rose to prominence in 2014 after faking a haunting with hyper-targeted Facebook ads, a stunt that earned over 450,000 views and 38,000 backlinks overnight. Since then, he’s advised hundreds of founders and teams on how to blend growth strategy with digital empathy—designing scalable systems that feel personal, not transactional.
His technical background spans no-code platforms, AI prompt engineering, CRM automation, and custom growth stacks, but it’s his ability to humanize the machine that sets him apart.
Today, Brian is building MythOS, a personal operating system for narrative design—designed to help individuals and organizations align their internal architecture (values, identity, voice) with external systems (growth, content, operations). His work is used by creators, coaches, and startup teams to scale without losing the soul of what they’re building.
- Augmented Bio
- See: 📝Brian Swichkow
Expertise
Brian brings both tactical experience and strategic depth to:
- 📝Growth Hacking and 📝Growth Engineering — 10+ years advising Seed to Series B startups
- Community Ecosystems — Deep expertise in 📝Reddit, 📝Product Hunt, 📝Hacker News, etc.
- Automation Architecture — CRM systems, GPT workflows, AI ops
- Narrative Design — Aligning internal story with external strategy
- 📝Digital Empathy — Designing automation that feels human, not hollow
- Founder Support — Emotional + operational infrastructure for scaling
Topics
Brian can speak and support topics including:
- From Threads to Flywheels — Building scalable growth through narrative loops
- Reddit, Product Hunt & HN — Growth hacking without the backlash
- Automate Without Losing Trust — Digital empathy in systems design
- Engineering Virality — Behavioral science meets growth experiments
- How to Think in Systems — A founder’s guide to building leverage
- Scaling With Soul — Why founders burn out—and how not to
Projects
- 📝One Inc - venture studio and startup incubator
- 📝MythOS - narrative system and communication platform
Assets
Contact
- Email:
[email protected] (public facing)
- Phone: +1 (310) 455-8836 (public facing)
- Website:brian.bot
- LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/brianswichkow
Press
- See: 📝My Media Features
Testimonials
- [coming soon]
Tidbits
- My (former) dog has been on the 📝Front Page of Reddit three times >> 📝Apple the Doxie
- I have twice promoted my dating profile with Reddit ads >> 📝Stoned and Single (advert)
Contexts
- 🏷️#brian-swichkow (See: 📝Brian Swichkow)