https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinbelmont

As a lifelong writer and editor, I founded Prose (www.prosemedia.com), a full-service marketing and staffing agency that has helped scale 1,000+ brands. Powered by a leading process, a passionate team, and a network of 1,000+ vetted world-class marketers, we craft custom solutions to build brands.

Over the past decade, we've been grateful to partner with brands we admire—like Amazon, Atlassian, BCG, Canon, Cisco, Coinbase, Coursera, Emirates, Epson, Eventbrite, Genentech, Google, Greylock, HarperCollins, JPMorgan Chase, Kaiser Permanente, LegalZoom, Levi's, Lionsgate, MetLife, Microsoft, Nasdaq, Nat Geo, Perplexity, Princeton Review, Redfin, Salesforce, Samsung, SAP, Sony, Squarespace, SXSW, TEDx, T-Mobile, Travelers, United Healthcare, Verizon, X, Yale, and Zeiss. Writing lists is one of our new specialties, apparently.

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Before Prose, I was the internal Editor-in-Chief @ Google, overseeing internal news for employees worldwide, and later served as Director of Communications & CEO Speechwriter @ Endeavor, an entrepreneurship nonprofit in 45 countries.

I also founded a volunteer-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit, CourseWorld, an early pioneer in the EdTech space focused on the liberal arts (VentureBeat called us "Hulu for the Humanities").

I've written a tech humor column for Forbes and published a couple books, Inside New York (30k copies sold) and The Art of Bicycling, a sports poetry anthology. More recently I've written stuff for The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Reader's Digest, and Psychology Today. I also write Post-it Notes—my latest is entitled, tellingly, "Milk."

During my MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Columbia (which I funded through a couple early startups, an online bookselling venture and a social enterprise), I read poetry submissions for The New Yorker and was managing editor of Columbia Journal. Previously I studied literature at Oxford (4.0) and graduated from Tufts with Highest Honors for a thesis (230pp.) on Joyce, Proust, and theories of personality.

Personal interests: literature; guitar; tennis & pickleball; tech; social entrepreneurship; pizza; and writing awkwardly self-promotional online bios.