Richard Ryan is the Co Founder of Black Rifle Coffee Company and has been at the forefront of digital media and marketing since 2005, with over 20 billion affiliated views, millions of subscribers and hundreds of millions in revenue across his brands.

Having started in traditional media, his shift to digital began in 2007 when he started a software company to create a monetization path for content creators by building a YouTube app in the app store 4 years before YouTube. He created mobile solutions for multiple industries while growing his digital brands as social media began to emerge.

Richard rapidly began innovating in the web2 space building partnerships and working with Google, the YouTube Product Team, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, and Universal. In 2015 he launched a media company with Verizon and Hearst becoming one of their fastest growing digital media brands garnering millions of subscribers in its first year all organically. While the success of the media company was gratifying, he left to focus his efforts full time on Black Rifle Coffee Company building out a media and marketing strategy that ultimately led them to going public in 2022 at a $2b evaluation.

In 2022 Richard established Black Beard Development Group building blockchain products help creators and brands solve problems fast ensuring they have permissionless alternatives to anything that might be a centralized vulnerability.