What Influencive was
- Founded by
- Brian D. Evans
- Founded
- 2015
- Published through
- 2023
- Tagline
- Unconventional wisdom from influential minds
- Topics
- Interviews, business, mindset, how-to, personal development, blockchain
- Brian now
- Advising.com, BDE Ventures
- Credits
- BDE Ventures: Inc. 500 (No. 172, 2015)
Brian D. Evans is an Inc. 500 entrepreneur, 40 Under 40 honoree, AI-first builder and investor. He founded BDE Ventures and co-founded Advising.com.
Brian D. Evans, today →I founded Influencive in 2015 to publish what we called unconventional wisdom from influential minds. Through 2023 we ran interviews and contributor columns on entrepreneurship, mindset, business, and personal development. We also wrote about crypto and blockchain in its early days.
Influencive grew from 800 readers to 750,000.
I did many of the interviews myself. I talked with people like Scooter Braun, Wyclef Jean and Randi Zuckerberg about how they built their careers.
Each piece appears word for word under the name of the person who wrote it, dated the day it ran. Nothing has been rewritten or updated. If a column reads like 2017, that's because it was written in 2017.
These days I spend my time on Advising.com, which I co-founded, and on BDE Ventures, where we advise and invest in founders. My personal site, briandevans.com, has the rest.