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53rd percentile
Creator of 99% Invisible, acquired by SiriusXM, now co-founding Radiotopia
Credibility
GTM / Distribution · 47th percentile
- radiotopia.fm ranks #235,064 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Wikipedia page exists for Roman Mars, confirming notable public presence.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)radiotopia.fm ranks #235,064 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past founder of 99% Invisible Inc., which was acquired by SiriusXM.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Current co-founder of Radiotopia, the podcast collective.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Radiotopia was co-founded with collaborators, confirming co-founder dynamic.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)99% Invisible Inc. was acquired by SiriusXM for an undisclosed sum (exit value unknown; floored to minimum).
What you likely need
You've built one of the most recognized independent podcast brands in history and navigated a major acquisition, but your founder story isn't fully visible to the people who should be writing you checks or booking you for stages. The highest-value Festival events for you are intimate dinners and roundtables that put you in the room with creator-economy investors, post-exit media founders, and conference programmers who can translate your 500M-download track record into keynotes, angel deals, and institutional backing for Radiotopia.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA creator-economy investor dinner with Slow Ventures' Creator Fund partners and audio-focused angels to explore institutional funding structures and valuation anchors for Radiotopia
- positioningA post-exit founder roundtable with other acquired-media and podcast founders to workshop how to publicly document the SiriusXM acquisition of 99% Invisible on LinkedIn and personal sites to sharpen the founder-exit narrative
- positioningA TED main-stage alumni dinner with fellow 2015 TED speakers and conference programming directors to convert your TED credibility and 500M podcast downloads into keynote slots at media, design, and tech conferences
- introsAn audio, design, and journalism startup happy hour with early-stage founders actively raising seed rounds, to help Roman formalize an angel investing role backed by his media credibility and Radiotopia network
- fundraisingA small-group office hours session with founders who have formalized nonprofit-to-commercial hybrid funding structures, to help Radiotopia move from grant dependency toward a clearer institutional partnership and valuation model
- tacticalA tactical dinner with podcast founders who have spun up standalone entities post-acquisition, to pressure-test formalizing 'Not Built For This' or other new Roman Mars ventures as independent companies with their own founder track records
- positioningA roundtable with SXSW, Cannes Lions, and Nieman Journalism Lab programming teams to position Roman's NYT bestselling book, TED history, and 99% Invisible brand as a marquee keynote package for 2025 and 2026 conference seasons
- introsA dinner bridging Radiotopia co-founders with Slow Ventures, a16z creator-economy partners, and Spotify Podcast Fund alumni to make warm introductions to investors actively writing checks into audio and independent content founders