Dickie Bush is the co-founder of Ship 30 for 30, the cohort-based course that has taught more than 10,000 people to write short 'atomic essays' online. A former Princeton football center and BlackRock portfolio analyst from Tampa, he started writing online in January 2020, pivoted from a stalling newsletter to Twitter, and built an audience of 400,000+ followers. With business partner Nicolas Cole he turned a daily writing habit into a seven-figure education business, the writing software Typeshare, and the Premium Ghostwriting Academy.
Blake Emal is a SaaS copywriter, solopreneur, and founder of Pagetear - a subscription copywriting service for tech startups. He rose to prominence as Employee #1 and CMO of Copy.ai, where he helped grow the company from $40K to $250K MRR. Known for growing his Twitter following from 700 to 91,000+ in under a year, Blake teaches practical marketing, landing page conversion, and personal branding. He writes copy for clients like Samsung, Betterment, and TripAdvisor through Pagetear.
Nicolas Cole is a digital writer, serial entrepreneur, and one of the most-read writers on the internet - accumulating over 100 million views across platforms. He co-founded Ship 30 for 30, the largest cohort-based writing program online, alongside Dickie Bush. A former #1 most-read writer on Quora out of 200 million users, Cole built a ghostwriting agency (Digital Press) scaling to $2M+ annual revenue, co-created Category Pirates newsletter with Eddie Yoon and Christopher Lochhead, and launched the Premium Ghostwriting Academy - a 7-figure program in under 90 days. Author of 'The Art & Business of Online Writing,' he runs a portfolio of writing businesses generating over $5M annually, training thousands of writers worldwide.