NickFriends Websites

Ania Wysocka is the founder of Rootd, an app for managing panic attacks. She bootstrapped Rootd to over 3.5 million users and 60,000+ reviews across Apple & Google, supporting millions of users in over 150 countries. Previously, she led a digital marketing bootcamp that supported over 6,000 small businesses in British Columbia. She also created and ran a digital marketing bootcamp at Alacrity Canada, partnering with the Province of British Columbia and helping over 6,000 small businesses in BC, particularly those impacted by COVID-19. Ania speaks five languages. Her passions include mental health, travel, and ultra marathon training. Rootd has been featured on the App Store 100+ times and named as one of the “best apps for anxiety” by Healthline, Cosmopolitan, and Women’s Health, and featured in the Time Magazine special edition: The Age of Anxiety.

Andy Sommer is the Founder of OffChance and Co-Founder of Somco Capital and RemoTeams. OffChance is a Houston-based studio and holding company focused on creating profitable and thoughtful brands. Somco Capital develops commercial real estate. RemoTeams is an offshore talent agency that powers all of Andy's businesses. His approach integrates commercial spaces with the brands he launches, creating ecosystems where interesting people can do interesting things.

Alex Lieberman is a Co-founder of Morning Brew and Storyarb. He is the Host of Founder’s Journal and a Co-host of The Crazy Ones. He considers himself a business barista, entrepreneur, and content creator. He offers candid advice on building businesses and explores how today’s world impacts founders. He spent over eight years at Morning Brew, including time as CEO, and helped grow the company to deliver business news to over 2 million readers daily. He is an Advisor at GrowthPair and an investor in ventures like MicroAcquire, Bark Social, and SoleSavy. He is passionate about entrepreneurship, storytelling, and empowering the next generation of builders.

Aiden Fishbein is the Founder and Principal of BRAEID Multimedia. He is a multimedia creator and entrepreneur who brings together cinematic storytelling, strategic thinking, and cutting-edge technology. He has spent over a decade delivering video content and creative services for corporate, tech, and creative clients. Aiden is also an independent filmmaker, musician, and experimental storyteller, always testing new technologies like generative AI and immersive media. His career weaves together creativity, strategy, and an ongoing search for meaningful impact. He was formerly Creative Director and COO at Vitals Agency and VP of Accounts at Viewstream.

Adam Reed Rozan is a museum professional, educator, and writer based in Washington, D.C. He currently works at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. His work focuses on audience and civic engagement, staff learning and culture, and Gen Z participation. He is a founding and steering committee member of the International Audience Engagement (IAE) Network and serves on the CoMuseum International Advisory Board. In the United States, he serves as National Programming Chair for Made By Us and as the Mid-Atlantic Regional Lead for Civic Season. He previously taught a course on museum audience engagement at Harvard University’s Extension School. In 2025, he received the Smithsonian Education Achievement Award for founding the Staff Learning Series. In 2023, he was named one of Blooloop’s Top Ten Museum Influencers. He holds a Master of Liberal Arts in Museum Studies from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in studio art from Elon University.

Zubila Shafiq is a Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and a Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist. She is the host of The Khatta Meetha Podcast. With over 14 years in federal healthcare, she focuses on geriatric pharmacy, chronic disease management, and whole health. She helps families make clear, practical decisions and moderates a national geriatric pharmacy teleconference. Zubila is committed to lifelong learning, inclusive leadership, and helping patients thrive through preventative and functional medicine. She is building an in-person grief support group for children in Asheville. She is also a mother of two school-aged boys and a daughter of Pakistani immigrants.

Zain Jaffer is the Founder & CEO of a stealth startup. He started his first company at 14. He later moved to the U.S. and co-founded Vungle, an ad tech platform that scaled to $400M+ in annual revenue before being acquired by Blackstone for $780M. Since then, he has invested in 20+ startups and built companies across multiple industries. He supports causes worldwide through the Zain Jaffer Foundation. He has been honored with awards such as Forbes 30 Under 30 and Inc. Magazine’s 35 Under 35. His work has been featured in Mashable’s “Behind the Launch” series and CNBC’s Squawk Box.

Whitney Malone joined Malone Detecting Solutions to carry on the family tradition of integrity and service. She is Joe Malone's daughter-in-law. Whitney brings over 15 years of operations and sales experience to the company. She looks forward to expanding the company's offerings while continuing to expertly service existing clients.

Siddesh Pai is a ghostwriter and stand-up comedian originally from Mumbai, now based in Toronto. He runs a solo writing business, helping founders and executives grow their personal brands through story-driven content. By night, he performs stand-up comedy, telling jokes about cultural identity, awkward dating, and self-improvement. He enjoys soccer, meditating, traveling, gaming, long walks, and people-watching. Siddesh has worked as an advertising copywriter for 8 years and has written campaigns for brands such as Canadian Tire, CIBC, and UNICEF. He creates email courses that help turn website visitors into warm leads and build loyal audiences.

Shlomo Schreibman is a software developer. He enjoys building things and learning new technologies. He is interested in web development, mobile development, and machine learning. He has experience with React, Node.js, and Python. He is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to grow as a developer. He is currently working on personal projects and contributing to open source.

Shane Farmer is a coach, entrepreneur, and author. He is the founder of Dark Horse Rowing, a company focused on helping people improve their rowing technique and fitness. He is also the author of "The Rowing Machine Workout: A Functional Program for Improved Fitness." Shane has a passion for helping people achieve their fitness goals through rowing.

Shaggy Eells is a digital nomad, event host, and entrepreneur with a passion for skiing. He was inspired by reading "The Four-Hour WorkWeek" and subsequently moved into his car, embarking on 1,364 consecutive days of travel. He graduated college in 2019, a year early. After traveling, he started an events company in Salt Lake City, Utah, and later co-founded a Christmas light installation business. Shaggy aims to balance joyfulness and fulfillment by working on remote businesses and skiing, while minimizing time spent on unenjoyable activities. He can be contacted via email.

Saul Zenkevicius is a CRE investor who has built a portfolio exceeding $100 million in value. He has invested in more than 1.2 million square feet of real estate and completed 200 transactions as a principal. Saul has also brokered over 2,000 real estate transactions. He founded Z Equity Group seven years ago. Saul lives in Chicago, Illinois. When not working, he spends time with his wife and three children and participates in triathlons and iron mans, including races in New Zealand and Lima.

Rubuyath Bahar is the Chief Executive Officer and Vice President of REP Outdoor Group. Based in St. Charles, Missouri, she leads the strategic vision and long-term growth of a portfolio of outdoor products and brands. With decades of experience across business development, operations, and international strategy, Rubuyath has steered complex initiatives that expand market reach, strengthen brand equity, and improve operational performance. Her work centers on blending data-informed decision-making with practical leadership. She oversees the strategic direction of a multi-brand company known for innovation in the outdoor products industry and has led initiatives in new market expansion, enhanced distribution strategies, and product diversification.

Ricky Schay is the CEO and Owner of Pulse, a pocket CRM. He helps people connect with others with context and intention, and build relationships that spark creativity and opportunity. Ricky lives in California. He spent much of his 20s as a freelance video producer. Noticing that his opportunities arose from personal connections, he developed a networking process. This process involved making memorable first connections, efficiently managing information, and following up to close deals. Seeing the need for a user-friendly platform to facilitate this, he created Pulse to help people connect, share, create, and follow up with like-minded individuals for productive relationships.

Pradeep Nalluri is a technology enthusiast with a passion for learning and building things. He is interested in Cloud Computing, DevOps, and Data Engineering. He currently works as a Cloud Architect. He enjoys automating infrastructure and building CI/CD pipelines. He is also interested in data engineering and building data pipelines. He is always looking for new things to learn and new challenges to tackle. He shares his learnings on his blog.

Peter Knox is the VP, Head of Marketing, and Client Experience Director at BookHighlight, a book marketing and sales agency based in Brooklyn, New York. He guides authors from proposal through publication and beyond. Peter is driven by a passion for connecting books to readers. Prior to BookHighlight, Peter was the Senior Marketing Manager leading the trade business book group at Wiley for almost fourteen years. His publishing career began at Washington College, where he served as Student Director of the Literary House Press and was awarded the Haddock Prize for Publishing Excellence. He enjoys traveling, taking photos, watching movies, and attending concerts and sporting events.

Noah Berkson is a 3x exit founder and serial entrepreneur who has co-founded 8 businesses and sold 3 by the age of 32. He recently launched Irreplaceable, an education platform teaching soft skills to students and young professionals. He was the Founder of DevBase and Candor Ventures, both of which were sold in 2021 and 2022 respectively. Noah currently leads Austin Capital, a single family office, and Commonground, a farmland leasing marketplace. He built Outcove, an invite-only retreat for founders and investors, and Weekend Of Man, an invite-only adult summercamp. He is an active member of Young Presidents Organization.

Nik Hulewsky is the Co-Founder of CoFounders.com. He is also the host of the Nikonomics Podcast. Nik graduated college in 2012 at 27. He spent nearly a decade in the healthcare industry, helping grow a $15M division into a $150M powerhouse. He has built, scaled, and sold multiple businesses that have collectively generated over $100 million in revenue. In 2020, he bought a medical billing company and co-founded a home health and hospice business. He has since started and invested in companies across industries.

Nicole Rojas is a creative professional with a background in design and marketing. She is passionate about helping brands connect with their audiences through visual storytelling and innovative strategies. Nicole has experience working with a variety of clients, from startups to established corporations. She is skilled in graphic design, branding, social media marketing, and content creation. Nicole is dedicated to crafting compelling narratives and impactful designs that drive results.

Nick Christensen is a growth operator who helps companies build profitable and repeatable growth systems for paid acquisition. He focuses on replacing guesswork with clarity by building systems, not relying on hacks or silver bullets. His expertise includes cleaning up attribution and tracking, designing smarter creative testing, shaping channel strategy, and connecting it all with tools and workflows. Nick spent a decade at AppSumo, helping grow the company from $7M to $90M. He partners with founders and growth teams through advisory and consulting work, aiming to bring clarity, structure, and results.

Monica Lim runs special projects for people you’ve definitely heard of. She is very good at running lean teams for one-off projects, and for repeat things like fashion shows, conferences, offsites, newsletters, and websites. For 15 years, she’s been turning dreams into reality across industries, from construction projects to fashion shows, corporate events to product launches. Currently, she is working with entrepreneur Andrew Wilkinson on projects that demand creativity, precision, and above all, execution. She manages projects such as The Never Enough podcast and The Interesting People conference. This is her corner of the internet where she shares what and how she gets things done.

Mike Smith is an entrepreneur, investor, and management consultant at EY. He has an insatiable need to help people and is on a mission to help 1,000 business owners by the end of his career. He enjoys the sport of business, reading, standup comedy, silent discos, fitness, volunteering, and playing tech support for his grandmother.

Michael Galpert is an entrepreneur who is passionate about building things. He worked at Epic Games as the Director of Product on Fortnite, focusing on player-to-player social interactions. Before that, he founded several startups, including Aviary, which was acquired by Adobe. Currently, he runs Contains Inc., an AI product studio. He grew up in New York, moved to the West Coast when he was 30, and has been in San Francisco for the last 12 years. He is a single dad to two daughters, ages 8 and 10. He also has a leopard gecko named Cheerio.