Geoff Shively

Innovator, Writer, and Doer

Geoff Shively

Innovator, Writer, and Doer

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πŸ‘‹πŸ» I live for Jesus, joy, learning, and serving. I do my part in helping make the world a better place by creating things people truly need.

🧰 I am curious, tenacious, and technical. I enjoy building and growing impactful brands.

❀️ I love God, family, friends, being of service, and challenging some statuses quo. I enjoy surfing, riding my bike, skateboarding, photography, collaboration, experimentation, creating awesome experiences, tinkering, acts-of-kindness, great design, regenerative agriculture, and rockets (hackerspace homies and I on a mission to a rocket base).

πŸ€“ I’ve been making things β€” starting business, writing stories, and inventing stuff since I was in elementary school. I started my first tech company when I was 14, taught university at 18, took my cybersecurity startup public at 21 β€” and my ego went to the moon (along with our valuation) shortly thereafter.

πŸš€ During high school, I started and led a team of hackers in developing novel free cybersecurity solutions because I wanted to help prevent human suffering related to security issues. The free solutions we made went viral and helped millions. Today, the security standards we developed are still used by the likes of Google, Apple, Amazon etc.

πŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸ’» I went on to apply my hacking/creative problem solving skills, entrepreneurial drive, and growth mindset doing what is now known as β€œgrowth hacking” in service of mission-driven businesses and effective charities such as Knots of Love.

πŸ™πŸ» I’ve had the honor of speaking M.I.T., helping launch and grow impactful brands such as TOMS Shoes, co-creating The Regenerative Agriculture Podcast (top show).

🌎 In 2019, I created The Good News. A daily not-for-profit YouTube and IGTV show with 107 episodes β€” with two goals: (1) Bring more good news into the world. (2) Inspire the courage to be kind β€” because lovingkindness is contagious and we need more of it in the world. The show strategy was simple: design to be copied, and share with people in need + those who were likely to copy it. Episodes were carefully seeded to famous producers, social influencers, Hollywood celebrities, motivation celebrities, and others to inspire more media like it to

πŸ˜€ I’ve created various science and art experiments, such as flash guerrilla rock shows:

πŸ§ͺ in a fast food restaurant

πŸ§ͺ at a movie premier

πŸ§ͺ in an IKEA

✝️ I am currently making and distributing Mustard Seed (Zine) as a personal ministry project, covered by my pastors.

  • Work
    • CXO, CMO, Advisor
  • Education
    • Scrum Inc.
    • MIT Sloan Executive
    • altMBA
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