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About Josh Richards
At 19, Josh Richards co-founded CrossCheck, a Gen Z, focused influencer talent agency that redefined how brands negotiate with creators, not through traditional contracts, but via real-time performance dashboards tied to TikTok engagement velocity and audience retention curves. He didn’t just monetize virality; he reverse-engineered it, publishing the 'Algorithmic Trust Index' in 2022, a proprietary metric blending comment sentiment analysis, share-to-private-message ratios, and follower cohort decay rates. That framework became foundational for early-stage startups seeking authentic social traction over vanity metrics. His $3M seed round for Flicker Labs wasn’t pitched to VCs with slides, it was demoed live on a 37-second TikTok thread dissecting CAC reduction in micro-influencer campaigns. He speaks finance not in quarterly reports but in scroll depth, dwell time, and conversion latency, measuring capital efficiency by how fast attention crystallizes into action.
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- “How did CrossCheck’s revenue model shift after TikTok’s 2023 ad API changes?”
- “What’s your take on SEC guidance for influencer equity compensation in pre-revenue startups?”
- “How do you calculate LTV when your customers are also your content creators?”
- “Which of your failed ventures taught you the most about unit economics in creator-led commerce?”