Paul Ford
Co-Founder & CEO
CEO Paul Ford is a writer, product strategist, educator, programmer, and software consultant. He has consulted on and managed digital and editorial strategies for organizations as diverse as Harper’s Magazine, where he was an editor for five years, Condé Nast, Credit Suisse, Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, and VICE Media, and for the media consulting firm Activate, where he contributed to editorial and product strategies for global media and finance firms.
Paul is widely known as a writer and commentator for national outlets like Wired and the New York Times, and is often anthologized in “Best of” collections. In 2016, Paul won the National Magazine Award for writing an entire issue of Bloomberg Businessweek to explain programming to a mass audience— an essay called “What Is Code?”
Paul has advised many startups at different growth stages and is an advisor to the publishing platform Medium. He was also an advisor to the White House Office of Digital Strategy during the Obama Administration, and helps out at the Library of Congress. Paul teaches at the School of Visual Arts and has appeared on countless radio programs, TV programs, and podcasts.
Recent Articles
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Pleasant Office Things
In celebration of whiteboards, office sandwiches, and arguing in person.
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Baking Your Layercake
Layercakes should simplify, not overcomplicate. Stop filling your tech diagrams with TMI.
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You Can’t Fix a Relationship With a Contract
The contract does not have magical powers. People do.
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Block by Block
Togetherness 2020: A Minecraft all-hands, holiday party, and battle royale.
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Tech After Trump
Not to fortune-tell, but to hope.
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The Case for Dashboard-Driven Development
Your boss doesn’t care about software.
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Why We Love Enterprise Codeless
It's an accelerant, not a threat.
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Thinking Like Microsoft
What Flight Simulator can teach us about building with platforms today.
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Dogfood for Everybody!
The only certainty about the future is that our digital platforms have to get better.