Built by founders who've lived it.
Megaphone exists because we were tired of watching the best founders stay invisible while louder, lesser competitors got the meeting. We built our own audiences from nothing, so we built the system that does it for you.
Who's behind Megaphone
Blake Emal
Co-founder and Head of Content
Blake owns the words. Every voice profile, every weekly plan, and the Founder Authority OS were built by him.
Before Megaphone he was the first marketing hire at Copy.ai, where he took the company from zero to $2.5M in annual revenue in under a year with content doing most of the lifting. He's built his own audience the same way: 92,000 followers on X and 26,000 on LinkedIn, one lane, over years, without ever buying an ad.
He architected the Founder Authority OS, the 36-lesson system that turns what we do for clients into something a founder can run alone. And he's the person your strategist answers to on voice. If a post doesn't sound like you, that's his problem before it's ever yours.
Michael Houck
Co-founder
Michael runs operations and growth, and he's the proof the system works on a founder who has no time.
He spent his early career on early teams at Airbnb and Uber before founding a company that raised $23M, including a Series A led by a16z. He co-founded a venture fund and has made over 50 early-stage investments into companies like Figure and beehiiv.
He's built an audience of more than 300,000 people across LinkedIn, X and email, and it has produced over $7M in lifetime revenue across the businesses behind it. Every week he writes Founding Journey to 58,000 founders. That audience is the reason Megaphone exists: he watched what being known did for his own companies, and how few founders with better stories ever get there.
We borrowed the best idea in enterprise software.
The best software companies stopped shipping their product over the wall years ago. They send an engineer to sit inside the customer's business, learn how it actually works, and build there. They call it forward deployed, and it's the reason those products fit so well.
Content has the same problem and almost nobody has solved it the same way. A writer working from a strategy document can't know that yesterday's support ticket said something true about the market. So we deploy a strategist into your company instead: one person, in your Slack and your meetings, with software behind them handling the drafting, scheduling and measurement.
Other firms interview you once a month. Your strategist is there all week. That used to be far too expensive to offer at this price. That it's now possible is the whole reason Megaphone looks the way it does.
A forward deployed strategist
- Inside the company
- In the channels and meetings you approve, so the work starts from what actually happened this week.
- One name, not a pool
- The same person every week. They learn your voice once and it compounds from there.
- Software behind them
- Drafting, scheduling and the weekly review run on our system, so their hours go to judgment instead of admin.
- Yours at day 90
- The voice guide, the formats and the process are documented as they're built, and they belong to you.
What we believe about founder content.
A company page reaches a fraction of what its founder reaches. So we build the engine around you first, then extend it to your co-founders, your executives and the company itself. Every account after the first one borrows from the work we did on yours.
Your voice is written down from your own words before a draft exists, and nothing publishes without your yes. This doesn't sound like me is the sentence that ends most writing relationships, so it's the one we design against.
Strangers stumbling on you is reach. The investor who's read you for months is reputation. We build the second thing, on X, LinkedIn and email.
A monthly call can't capture the decision you made on Tuesday or the number that surprised everyone on Friday. Your strategist is in the room all week, which is why the work sounds like it came from inside the company.
We guarantee what we control: the install, live by week three, with the day-60 decision on schedule. Anyone guaranteeing outcomes on a platform they don't own is guessing with your money.
Replies, connections and messages are done by people. Your account and your reputation aren't a place for scripts.
Every document and every process is yours at day 90. A firm that holds the keys to your growth hasn't built anything for you.
The weekly review logs the messages, calls, mentions and invites your content produced. That's the number we open with, because it's the one that pays you.
Ready to build yours?
Thirty minutes. We read your accounts before the call, then show you what we would fix first and what we would start with. That's yours whether or not we ever work together.