Jarrod Dicker (born March 9, 1985) is a writer, entrepreneur and technology executive. He is currently the chief executive officer of Po.et,Axios: Washington Post Guru Exits a decentralized media technology company. Dicker is creditedAdage: Blockchain Comes to Publishing with bringing blockchain technology to the media and advertising space. He formerly led innovation at the Washington Post,Red Alert: Washington Post's Surprising Adtech Skunkworks and held similar roles at RebelMouse,Social Media Aggregator RebelMouse Raises $10.25M Time Inc. and the Huffington Post.HuffPo’s Coleman: ‘We’ll Double Revenues Again This Year’
Early life and education
Dicker earned a BA from Rutgers University, majoring in English Literature. At Rutgers, he wrote for the school paper, The Daily Targum.
Career
Writing
In 2009, Dicker served as the deputy editor of Stay Thirsty Media, an online music magazine. There he interviewed over 100 artists, including Dave Davies of the Kinks,Thirsty interviews Dave Davies of The Kinks Bill Ward of Black Sabbath,Thirsty interviews Bill Ward of Black Sabbath Greg Ginn of Black FlagThirsty interviews Greg Ginn of Black Flag and more.
Dicker also wrote for Relix Magazine, Jambase.com and Jambands.com.
The Washington Post
Dicker joined the Washington Post in 2013 to lead their innovation unit and founded their research and development team, RED.Jarrod Dicker has only been with The Washington Post for a little over three months now, and he's already sold on its future. There he was credited with turning around the Washington Posts advertisingWashington Post Pushes Into Ad Tech With New High-Speed Ad Product and technologyAt 'Washington Post,' Tech Is Increasingly Boosting Financial Performance business.
Po.et
On February 13, 2018, and Axios scooped that Dicker was leaving the Washington Post to become CEO of blockchain company, Po.et. Following the announcement, Dicker wrote a post on Medium explaining that Po.et is a shared, open-source universal ledger designed to track ownership, attribution and the marketplace flow of the world's creative assets through a never-before-imagined chain of value. As described in Columbia Journalism Review, "lots of people in media pay attention when Dicker calls something interesting, and so many heads turned when he said he was leaving the Post for a blockchain startup called Po.et."Jarrod Dicker on what the blockchain can do for news Many have covered the evolution of Po.et, citing how blockchain can change digital publishing for the better.How Blockchain Could Change Digital Publishing
Accolades
In 2013, Business Insider named Dicker one of the most creative people in social media marketing
In 2017, Business Insider named Dicker and the RED team the most interesting ad-tech upstarts of 2017The 19 most interesting ad-tech upstarts of 2017, ranked
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