Hi! My name is Marshall Kirkpatrick. I’m a technologist, former journalist, occasional entrepreneur, and man interested in helping heal humanity’s relationship with the rest of the Earth.

As a journalist, I was the first writer hired at Techcrunch, the top technology blog on the internet, back in 2006, and then co-editor of then NYT-syndicated ReadWriteWeb. I specialized in using data and real-time alerting to break hundreds of news stories and offer deep analysis of developments in the technology industry and their implications in the world. You can see the quotes and citations my writing received from media around the world here.

As an entrepreneur, I productized my expert-driven news-breaking data journalism thinking into a search engine for people called Little Bird in 2011. In addition to being used by journalists at places like Mother Jones and The Nation, Little Bird was also used by some of the most creative and largest institutions in the world, from Walmart to Disney to IBM to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and many more. It was acquired by Sprinklr in 2016.

As a marketing leader at Sprinklr, I did research and helped advise the largest organizations in the world on how they can use data from the internet to improve their customer experience and leadership in the emerging future.

My next job is something I’m super excited about but am not going to discuss publicly until we launch the first project I’m working on! I will tell you I’m spending a lot of time with software developers and IT infrastructure people, though.

As an environmental activist, with regard to our human relationship with the Earth, I live on the traditional territory of the  Siletz, Cowlitz, and Clackamas tribes, now referred to as Portland, Oregon. I do volunteer work around climate change, including curation of a Twitter list of more than 1,000 climate scientists, activists, and organizations that’s now followed by more than 10,000 people.  I’m also curating stories of “pragmatic optimism” around climate for the Exponential View newsletter, a newsletter read by thousands of people around the world, with extensive representation from the tech, venture, and management consulting sectors.

If you’re a Twitter user, (it’s a big part of my life!) you can put me in context relative to the people in your world via this link. (People you follow who follow me.)