# Gregory Galant

> Gregory Galant is the Miami Beach-based co-founder and CEO of Muck Rack, co-creator of the Shorty Awards and host of the Venture Voice podcast. He began building Internet businesses as a teenager, entered podcasting in 2005, helped create a tweet-powered awards show in 2008 and launched Muck Rack in 2009. After more than a decade of profitable, largely bootstrapped growth, Muck Rack accepted a $180 million minority growth investment in 2022. Galant is now steering the company toward AI-powered media intelligence and generative engine optimization.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Muck Rack
- **Organizations:** Muck Rack, The Shorty Awards, Venture Voice, Sawhorse Media, Page Society, Young Presidents’ Organization, Entrepreneurs’ Organization
- **From:** Huntington, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BA in Philosophy, Emory University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Muck Rack and grew it largely through revenue before its $180 million minority growth investment in 2022., Reported more than $50 million in annual recurring revenue at Muck Rack by the time of the 2022 financing., Co-created the Shorty Awards, whose first public voting site became Twitter’s top trending term within 24 hours of launch.

## Career timeline

- **Teenage years** — Learned programming and founded an Internet and web-development business at age 14.
- **2005** — Launched Venture Voice, interviewing entrepreneurs including early leaders of LinkedIn, Twitter, Vanguard, Yelp and Brooklyn Brewery; also tested a podcast advertising network.
- **2008** — Co-created the Shorty Awards with Lee Semel and Adam Varga. The tweet-powered site was built in two weeks and became a top Twitter trend within 24 hours.
- **2009** — Co-founded Muck Rack with Lee Semel as a free site organizing journalists and their social activity.
- **2011** — Turned Muck Rack into a subscription software product for public-relations teams.
- **2021** — Founded the Work Remotely Forever Pledge, advocating that participating companies not force employees back to an office.
- **2022** — Muck Rack accepted a $180 million minority investment from Susquehanna Growth Equity, its first institutional funding round after years of profitable growth.
- **2024** — Reported that Muck Rack had exceeded $50 million in annual recurring revenue by the time of its 2022 financing; named an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Florida regional winner.
- **2025** — Muck Rack launched Generative Pulse to measure how brands and organizations appear in answers from generative AI systems.
- **2026** — Set out Muck Rack’s next transformation around embedded AI, rebuilt media monitoring and what the company calls Narrative Intelligence.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Muck Rack and grew it largely through revenue before its $180 million minority growth investment in 2022.
- Reported more than $50 million in annual recurring revenue at Muck Rack by the time of the 2022 financing.
- Co-created the Shorty Awards, whose first public voting site became Twitter’s top trending term within 24 hours of launch.
- Launched Venture Voice in 2005 and recorded early podcast interviews with founders from LinkedIn, Twitter, Vanguard, Yelp and other organizations.
- Named among BusinessWeek’s Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs in 2010.
- Included in PRovoke Media’s Innovator 25 Americas in 2022.
- Named an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Florida regional winner in 2024.
- Has spoken at SXSW, Web Summit, Harvard Business School, Le Web and the International Journalism Festival.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — In Muck Rack’s Q3 publication, Galant argued that reliable media monitoring must be the foundation for AI recommendations and described the company’s direction as Narrative Intelligence.
- **2026-04** — Appeared on the On Top of PR podcast to discuss embedded AI in communications workflows, message consistency and real-time adaptability.
- **2026-03** — Published remarks from Muck Rack’s company retreat arguing that durable companies repeatedly reinvent themselves and that remote teams can innovate at scale.
- **2025-08** — Appeared on Heavybit’s Platform Builders to recount Muck Rack’s origins and explain why he sees large-language-model visibility as a new frontier for public relations.
- **2025-07** — Muck Rack introduced Generative Pulse, a product designed to track how brands appear in generative AI answers and which sources those systems cite.

## Links

- Website: https://galant.org/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/galant
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/gregory
- GitHub: https://github.com/galant
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gregory/

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Last updated: 2026-09-22