Ryan Lawler

Writing, Researching & Content Strategy | Formerly @Samsung NEXT @500 Global @TechCrunch & @Gigaom

Venture Capital Philadelphia New York University '00

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Experience

Samsung Next

Head of Content 2017 - 2021 (about 4 years)

I led all aspects of thought leadership and content development at the Samsung division responsible for driving innovation within startup ecosystems globally. I managed a... more

500 Global

Venture Partner 2015 - 2016 (about 1 year)

My responsibilities included sourcing investments in early-stage startups for the seed fund, recruiting companies for the accelerator, and advising the accelerator companies... more

TechCrunch

Senior Writer & Editor 2012 - 2015 (about 3 years)

In this role, I wrote breaking news and analysis about strategic business alliances, startup financing, leadership changes, and M&A activity. I also developed a deep network... more

Gigaom

Senior Writer 2009 - 2012 (about 3 years)

During my time at Gigaom, I was responsible for writing news and analysis stories on the convergence of traditional and digital media business models around pay, subscription-based,... more

Bigfinite

Advisor

YouStake

Advisor

OpenSponsorship

OpenSponsorship

Advisor

WorkAmerica

Exit

Advisor

Employee

500 Global, Gigaom, TechCrunch, Samsung Next

Advisor

YouStake, WorkAmerica, OpenSponsorship, Bigfinite

Education

About

Achievements

At Samsung Next, I led the launch of Component, a monthly tech publication that explored innovation in AI, edge computing, health tech, media tech, and food tech. Grew readership from 0 to 30K monthly uniques in under four months.

I also launched multiple multimedia content series, including the bi-weekly “What’s Next” podcast; the instructional video series ClassroomX; the artificial intelligence lecture series “How AI is Changing the World”; and mini-documentary “The End of the Beginning.”

Partnered with an external vendor on a redesign of samsungnext.com that led to 3x traffic growth in three months post-launch. Overhauled the corporate blog, increasing publication frequency and growing traffic 6x in the first 100 days.

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