# Michael Ramlet

> Michael Ramlet is the Chicago-based co-founder and CEO of Morning Consult, the decision-intelligence company that grew from a student healthcare newsletter and a $30,000 angel stake into a global survey-data business valued at more than $1 billion in 2021. A University of Minnesota graduate and former Purple Strategies principal, he has spent his career trying to shorten the distance between a question and a useful answer - first with online polling, then daily economic and brand tracking, and now AI-assisted research.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at Morning Consult
- **Organizations:** Morning Consult, Purple Strategies, University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science in Business, business strategy and public policy, University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management
- **Known for:** Co-founded Morning Consult and grew it from $30,000 in angel capital to a $1.01 billion valuation by June 2021., Built a client base that Morning Consult said included more than half of the Fortune 500 in 2021., Led development of high-frequency brand, economic and geopolitical data products used by companies and public institutions.

## Career timeline

- **2005** — Entered the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management and began cultivating mentors in entrepreneurship and healthcare policy.
- **2006** — Interned in the U.S. Senate, where he met future Morning Consult co-founder Kyle Dropp.
- **2009** — Graduated from Carlson with a bachelor's degree focused on business strategy and public policy; later served the school as an adjunct lecturer and board adviser.
- **Before 2014** — Worked in healthcare policy and became a principal at Purple Strategies while continuing to publish the healthcare-policy newsletter that became Morning Consult.
- **2013** — With Kyle Dropp, used $30,000 in angel funding to poll 2,000 U.S. adults about enrollment in new health-insurance exchanges; the White House cited the findings and a Fortune 500 company soon commissioned paid work.
- **2014** — Co-founded Morning Consult with Kyle Dropp and Alex Dulin and became CEO.
- **2015** — Morning Consult's mixed-mode experiment found Donald Trump performed better without a live interviewer, bringing national attention to the company.
- **2018** — Named to Ad Age's 40 Under 40 and received EY's Mid-Atlantic Technology Entrepreneur of the Year honor.
- **2019-2020** — Morning Consult began sharing high-frequency economic data with the Federal Reserve and accelerated the release of Economic Intelligence during the 2020 economic shock.
- **2021** — Led a $60 million Series B at a $1.01 billion valuation; Morning Consult reported a revenue run rate above $100 million and more than half of the Fortune 500 as clients.
- **2024** — Named the University of Minnesota's Entrepreneur of the Year and introduced early access to Morning Consult AI.
- **2025** — Expanded public access to Morning Consult's AI-powered research tools and publicly outlined a model combining proprietary daily interviews, conversational analysis and research agents.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Morning Consult and grew it from $30,000 in angel capital to a $1.01 billion valuation by June 2021.
- Built a client base that Morning Consult said included more than half of the Fortune 500 in 2021.
- Led development of high-frequency brand, economic and geopolitical data products used by companies and public institutions.
- University of Minnesota Entrepreneur of the Year, 2024.
- Ad Age 40 Under 40 honoree, 2018.
- EY Mid-Atlantic Technology Entrepreneur of the Year, 2018.
- PRovoke Media Innovator 25 honoree, 2020, and PRWeek Dashboard 25 honoree, 2021.

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Discussed Morning Consult's 100 million proprietary interviews across 43 countries, AI research agents and model-agnostic infrastructure in Greenbook's CEO Series.
- **2025-10** — Joined the ANA's On Scope podcast to discuss broader access to Morning Consult's AI research tools, bias, synthetic audiences and the continuing role of human judgment.
- **2025-09** — Presented Morning Consult NEXT, demonstrating deep-research agents and new custom-research programs.
- **2025-04** — Told CNBC that intellectual curiosity is the quality he looks for in strong employees.
- **2024-05** — Received the University of Minnesota's 2024 Entrepreneur of the Year award at the Carlson School's Founders Day.

## Links

- Website: https://morningconsult.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelramlet
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/MichaelRamlet

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