About Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg is a writer and the founder of Studio Self, a narrative agency that helps organisations work out their positioning, story and messaging. She writes about AI, culture, technology and philosophy in her newsletter WESTENBERG, subtitled Field Notes on the Machine Age, which she publishes under the byline JA Westenberg.
Alongside Studio Self she is building several other projects, including Kerouac, Distributism and Sedition, and she created A History of Optimism.
On Day One she hosts Unfunded, interviewing founders about bootstrapping, fundraising and building their businesses.
- Website
- joanwestenberg.com
Behind the microphone.
The path so far.
- Now
Founder · Studio Self
- Earlier · Startup
Communications/marketing · Fishburners
- Earlier · Startup
Founder · Tiny Spells
Sources: smartcompany.com.au
Studio Self on Day One
Studio Self is a narrative agency run by JA Westenberg. It advises founders and executive teams whose products are hard to explain, venture funds and emerging fund…
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