Shorty Awards Creator

Gregory Galant, Muck Rack, Bootstrapping, PR / Media Marketing, Social Media

I met today’s guest at a podcasting conference in Las Vegas 10 years ago when no one even knew what podcasting was. Since then I’ve never missed an episode of his show Venture Voice which he put on hold for a decade while building his other businesses, but just relaunched.

But he’s gone on to do amazing things including creating The Oscars of social media, The Shorty Awards, and Muck Rack. I invited him on to talk about all of it.

Gregory Galant

Muck Rack

Gregory Galant is the creator of the Short Awards and founder of Muck Rack where you can find journalists, get press for your story, monitor the news and report on the impact of your PR.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. And part of the reason why I do these interviews is because years ago I was at this conference in Las Vegas for podcasters, and I saw this guy Gregory Gallant. Must’ve been the shyest person in the room. Were you shy back then when you started

Gregory: I wouldn’t say shy, but I don’t know, maybe in different contexts, depending on what contexts I was in could, uh, not necessarily be the most gregarious person in the room.

Andrew: It definitely wasn’t your place beyond the fact that you were podcasting everyone else. There was trying to be. Like an actor an over the top, something in an environment podcasting we’re talking about over 10 years ago, that wasn’t really ready for it. You know what I mean? Remember, weren’t the podcast was what bobbleheads made for...

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