Richard King, Talking truth on leadership, growth & product marketing | 5x founder | 3x exits |
Talking truth on leadership, growth & product marketing | 5x founder | 3x exits |
- 104.6K followers
- 40 posts / 60d
- 0.8% avg engagement
- 1.0K follower growth / 30d
Richard King ranks #31 of 18,566 creators on the LinkedIn Ranking, working in Higher Education and based in United Kingdom. They have 104.6K followers and published 40 posts in the last 60 days at a 0.8% average engagement rate.
The roast
Richard, you claim to be a builder with three exits, but your entire career trajectory suggests your real talent is just finding new ways to avoid ever having to actually work for someone else. You say you’re here to share insights on leadership, but with 29 posts in a month, you're clearly just the guy who talks about the gym more than he actually lifts.
About Richard
I’m a builder at heart, with five startups and three exits under my belt. My passion lies at the intersection of product, marketing, sales, and data - so you’ll often hear me talking about product marketing. My entrepreneurial journey has taught me the value of resilience, innovation, and questioning the crowd rather than following it. Most importantly, it’s shown me the power of community. 👉 Why I share on LinkedIn: I believe in collective learning: I want to provide tried and tested insights to help you navigate your career, whether you're a founder, marketer, or looking to learn something new. 👉 What I talk about: 1️⃣ Building bootstrapped companies Why go-to-market efficiencies are a non-negotiable 2️⃣ How to spot and nurture talent Strategies for building high-performing and efficient teams 3️⃣ Product marketing - why won’t I shut up about it? How effective product marketing drives business success. 4️⃣ Operational excellence + a great culture. It is possible. The nuts and bolts of business operations and fostering a winning culture. 5️⃣ What does leadership really mean? The changing expectations of what it means to be a “boss.” Go ahead and hit the follow button, and I’ll see you around!
Highlights
- Top 1% in United Kingdom
: Ranked #6 of 1840 creators
- Top 1% Audience
: 104,628 followers
- Top 1% Impact
: 844 avg engagements per post
- Top 1% in Higher Education
: Ranked #2 of 213 creators
Recent posts
Wait for it... I liked the messaging for their launch campaign "One headphone. Every version of you" Pretty funny execution too imo But... The reason I love the launch has very little to do with this ad and a lot more to do with the playbook their marketing team has built over the last few years to sneakily influence AI search. Quick background for you: In may, their new headphones and all the legal stuff like trademark etc show up in an FCC filing. Then a few days later, Lamine Yamal rocks up to Spain's World Cup training camp with an unreleased pink pair hanging off his bag. Then in
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Somewhere along the way, marketing stopped getting asked and started getting ordered from. The whole company queues at it like a vending machine. - Sales presses a button and wants a one-pager. - The founder wants a post by Friday. - CS wants a deck, product wants launch copy, someone wants the numbers reformatted again. Press a button, an asset drops out. Nobody asks the machine what it thinks. And the requests never stop. The machine keeps dispensing whether there's anything left in it or not. Meanwhile the strategy work, the reason you hired marketers in the first place, waits be
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"Completely anonymous" 👀 We're doing something at The Alliance that I think every leadership team should consider. We're surveying our entire organization on AI usage. Right now, every team is using AI differently. Some people use GPT, some use Claude, some use Clay's AI integrations. There's a lot of great individual work happening, but it still pops up in silos. One of the big themes we're working towards this year is how do we not only increase our AI fluency but how do we actually make that AI fluency spread throughout the organizational culture? So that there's not only a culture
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Last updated 2026-08-01