CEO & Co-Founder, MarketStorm
Reach buyers before they search.
Rick Brown built an AI company that finds people at the very start of a big decision, and scaled it nationwide without a dollar of venture capital.
- 2018Co-founded MarketStorm
- $0Venture capital raised
- 700+Clients served
- 350,000+Conversions in the last two years
Talks with no hype and no investor money.
Rick speaks to founders, CMOs and growth-stage teams on what AI can really do, how to scale without VC, and how to read a market before it moves.
- Is AI a Bubble? A Bootstrapped Founder's Honest Take
- Scaling to Hundreds of Thousands of Accounts Without a Single VC Check
- Why Most “AI Strategies” Are Really Just Expensive Guesswork
Recent conversations
Podcast interviews on AI, demand and building MarketStorm.
“AI is only useful where there's a tool and a need that combine.”
Rick Brown on The Entrepreneur's Logbook
From the Oakland Raiders to a nationwide AI company.
Rick spent about 15 years building brand partnerships in sports and entertainment, then co-founded MarketStorm with Carole Lawson in 2018. He has guest-lectured on entrepreneurial leadership at Harvard University Extension School since 2020.
MarketStorm
“Stop chasing demand. Create it.” MarketStorm helps brands influence buyers before they actively begin searching, using predictive data, advanced audience targeting and programmatic media.
In the press
Press & media kit
Targeting Tomorrow's Customers: Carole Lawson & Rick Brown of MarketStorm on Predictive Marketing
Founder lessons from MarketStorm, including why co-founders should be physically in the room together as early and as often as they can.
Carole Lawson of MarketStorm, Traffic Won't Win the Next Decade, Influence Will
Carole Lawson on influence over traffic, quoting Rick on the AI-generated “sea of sameness.”