Jeffrey Goldsmith

Marketing Coach and Fractional CMO for startups. I provide solid ideas that help founders, marketers and sales teams execute. I also write non-fiction books. I began my career in NYC working in advertising while studying philosophy/art history at NYU, then traveled, living in Mexico, Japan (twice), and France. I landed a copywriting job in Tokyo at age 24 with one headline. Ask me. Returned to NYC at age 28, interviewed Allen Ginsberg for Details Magazine in 1992, launching a journalism career. Wrote features for Wired, notably The Last Human Grandmaster (on AI and chess) and the much quoted, This Is Your Brain on Tetris, coining the term, The Tetris Effect.   1996 Pivot: writing led to working both for startups and digital agencies in San Francisco. I worked at top agencies. Modem Media, Organic, Razorfish, Carat, on accounts like Hilton, Starbucks, Intel, Wells Fargo, Visa. Advertising career culminated 2 years of consulting with top branding firm Wolff Olins: rebranded Sun, PwC,