Careers
About us
Icon (icon.com) is the AI Admaker. Backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Saquon Barkley (NFL), & leaders of OpenAI (ChatGPT), Google DeepMind (Veo), & Cognition (Devin).
Mission
Make viral content.
Perks
- $1500/mo to live near NoMad office (15m walk or 10m subway).
- Free food (in-office).
Values
We're intentionally polarizing. Before applying, please make sure you align with these values (all good if you don't):
- Grind. We work on weekends and at night if needed. It's ok to send messages at 3am. We do whatever it takes to win (not because we have to, but because we want to).
- A-players only. Only A-players can hire A-players. We'd rather hire 1 A-player and pay an above-market amount (that someone is happy with) than hire 3 B-players and pay market.
- Drive. You're hungry to do what it takes for us to win. You likely have a massive chip on the shoulder and/or a neurodivergent brain. Work is a key part of your identity / fulfillment in life.
- Urgency. Do in a day what usually takes weeks. Run through walls to get things done. Respond in minutes (or seconds) instead of hours.
- Shameless. Be extremely annoying if it means winning. Check-in on things 10x daily. Double (or quadruple) text if someone hasn't responded. Call them too.
- Fast firing. If someone isn't an A player, we part ways quickly (with respect). Please be okay with this. We do paid trials to help de-risk this.
- Mission-focused (apolitical). We avoid distractions, side quests, or ideological debates that slow us down and create openings for competitors to destroy us.
- Many hats. No job is not your job.
- EV-based decisions. Take risk where it makes sense to take risk.
- Customer-first (not team-first). It's our job to make things move fast. We dropped the ball if a customer feels like we did.
- Flat org. Titles reflect scope, not ego. Ideas win based on merit (not hierarchy / years of experience). No political promotion games.
Founders Fund
Icon Investor
Peter Thiel's venture capital firm. The partners have founded & funded companies like PayPal, Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril, Flexport, Airbnb, & Stripe.
Peter Thiel's venture capital firm.
Mark Chen
Icon Investor
Chief Research Officer at OpenAI (ChatGPT).
Chief Research Officer at OpenAI (ChatGPT).
Jane Street, Microsoft, MIT.
Saquon Barkley
Icon Investor
NFL Running Back Philadelphia Eagles (Super Bowl 2025).
NFL Running Back Philadelphia Eagles (Super Bowl 2025).
New York Giants.
Roman Khan
Icon Investor
President, Founder at Peak21, CMO at Raycon, CMO at Know Beauty, CMO, Co-founder at Linjer, CMO at Nutrition Kitchen.
CMO at Raycon, Know Beauty, & Linjer.
Founders Fund
Icon Investor
Peter Thiel's venture capital firm. The partners have founded & funded companies like PayPal, Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril, Flexport, Airbnb, & Stripe.
Peter Thiel's venture capital firm.
Mark Chen
Icon Investor
Chief Research Officer at OpenAI (ChatGPT).
Chief Research Officer at OpenAI (ChatGPT).
Jane Street, Microsoft, MIT.
Saquon Barkley
Icon Investor
NFL Running Back Philadelphia Eagles (Super Bowl 2025).
NFL Running Back Philadelphia Eagles (Super Bowl 2025).
New York Giants.
Roman Khan
Icon Investor
President, Founder at Peak21, CMO at Raycon, CMO at Know Beauty, CMO, Co-founder at Linjer, CMO at Nutrition Kitchen.
CMO at Raycon, Know Beauty, & Linjer.
Founders Fund
Icon Investor
Peter Thiel's venture capital firm. The partners have founded & funded companies like PayPal, Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril, Flexport, Airbnb, & Stripe.
Peter Thiel's venture capital firm.
Mark Chen
Icon Investor
Chief Research Officer at OpenAI (ChatGPT).
Chief Research Officer at OpenAI (ChatGPT).
Jane Street, Microsoft, MIT.
Saquon Barkley
Icon Investor
NFL Running Back Philadelphia Eagles (Super Bowl 2025).
NFL Running Back Philadelphia Eagles (Super Bowl 2025).
New York Giants.
Roman Khan
Icon Investor
President, Founder at Peak21, CMO at Raycon, CMO at Know Beauty, CMO, Co-founder at Linjer, CMO at Nutrition Kitchen.
CMO at Raycon, Know Beauty, & Linjer.
Story
Kennan Davison
CEO, Founder
College dropout. Solo-founded Skio ($25M+ ARR & profitable, $8M seed, 70+ teammates).
College dropout. Solo-founded Skio ($25M+ ARR & profitable, $8M seed, 70+ teammates).
Top 200 NA League of Legends (100M+ players), YC S20 (solo), W+K (ad agency).
Top 200 NA League of Legends (100M+ players), YC S20 (solo), W+K (ad agency).
Hi, I'm Kennan!
Thank you for reading this. My life has been a journey full of ups & downs & I’m grateful to be here.
I grew up finding school extremely boring & slept through most of my classes. If I'm being real, no one thought I'd go anywhere (was Top 200 North America out of 100M+ players in League of Legends though).
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AI Admaker Launch (Tier 1 Viral)
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Introducing Icon, the world's first AI Admaker.
AI Admaker Launch (Tier 1 Viral)
(Tier 1 Viral)
Introducing Icon, the world's first AI Admaker.
AI CMO Launch (Tier 1 Viral)
(Tier 1 Viral)
Introducing Icon, the world's first AI CMO (Chief Marketing Officer).
AI CMO Launch (Tier 1 Viral)
(Tier 1 Viral)
Introducing Icon, the world's first AI CMO (Chief Marketing Officer).
Investment Round (Tier 1 VCs)
(Tier 1 VCs)
Peter Thiel's Founders Fund doubles down on Icon.
Investment Round (Tier 1 VCs)
(Tier 1 VCs)
Peter Thiel's Founders Fund doubles down on Icon.
$12M Domain (Tier 1 Domain)
(Tier 1 Domain)
The icon.com domain is the 6th most expensive domain of all time (thus making it a Tier 1 Domain).
$12M Domain (Tier 1 Domain)
(Tier 1 Domain)
The icon.com domain is the 6th most expensive domain of all time (thus making it a Tier 1 Domain).
