Technology Experts

What about the nitty-gritty details? Every creator relies on some kind of technology. These award winners help creators understand which technology to choose, and how to use it.
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Award Winners

Jade Darmawangsa

Jade creates approachable and entertaining content focused on social media growth, new technology, and her own journey as an entrepreneur and founder.

Jade is a social entrepreneur and CEO at X8 Media, a GenZ influencer agency. Most recently Jade is working on a new start up NFTree Haus, working with creators to help fight climate change with NFTs.

Jade grew an audience of 380,000 subscribers and 15M views, categorizing her as one of the top creator economy Youtubers. Jade started one of the fastest growing influencer agencies, X8 Media. Currently X8 has worked with Netflix, Adobe, P&G, HP, Lonely Whale and Warner Brother Media.

Instagram | TikTok | YouTube

Marques Brownlee

Marques uses his 10+ years of experience covering the tech industry to create honest and entertaining reviews of the latest in technology.

Marques Keith Brownlee, also known professionally as MKBHD, is an American YouTuber and professional ultimate frisbee player, best known for his technology-focused videos as well as his podcast Waveform. As of December 2021, he has over 15 million subscribers and over 2.7 billion total video views.

YouTube | Instagram | Website

Baidhurya Mani

Baidhurya offers a comprehensive resource to help online creators choose the right tools to build and grow their businesses.

Baidhurya is the founder of Sell Courses Online, where he helps creators choose the right tools to build and grow their online business. He is also the Partner Tech & Marketing @ StationX, a leading cybersecurity training company. 

In the past, he ran a digital agency called Teachific Lab where he worked with hundreds of creators to build and launch their online courses and membership sites.

Website | Twitter

Geoff Cudd

Geoff's analytical approach to technology research and reviews helps entrepreneurs choose the best tools to grow their businesses.

Geoff Cudd is the founder of Don’t Do It Yourself (DDIY), where he takes an unbiased look at new technology tools and services.

He helps creators cut through the noise by offering honest reviews of new products and tools so creators are able to pick the best option for their business.

Website

Jason Whaling

Jason documents the process of building a digital lifestyle business from scratch, sharing his insights and experiences with other entrepreneurs.

After passing the Registered Investment Advisory exam right out of college, Jason struck out to build his own practice. After two years of failing at marketing, he joined an agency in Seattle to learn what actually worked.

Fast forward 5 years and a few million dollars in ad spend. He's on a mission to help honest hard working entrepreneurs earn a full time income from their business. He does this by documenting the entire process (good, bad, and ugly) over on his YouTube channel since the only thing better than learning from your own failures... is learning from others.

Website | YouTube

Aurelius Tjin

Aurelius’ tutorials and reviews help entrepreneurs choose the right tools and technology, build audiences, and monetize their businesses.

Aurelius Tjin is an entrepreneur and an active YouTuber, with over 100,000 subscribers.

He shares his love for teaching and entrepreneurship with others through his videos, including teaching creators how to successfully create online courses and digital products, along with tips on software tools and automations.

Website | YouTube 

Catalin Zorzini

Catalin provides in-depth, easy-to-read reviews that help entrepreneurs across experience levels choose the right ecommerce platforms for their businesses.

Catalin Zorzini is the founder of ecommerce-platforms.com, a website creators can use to find the best software tools for their businesses.

Catalin provides in-depth reviews on their blog and through their active email list.

He is also building several other businesses to tackle several important social issues like the environment and mental health, including ethical.net, plumvillage.app, and earth.fm.

Website | Twitter

Jitendra Vaswani

Jitendra uses 8+ years of experience in SEO and digital marketing to help bloggers and entrepreneurs build successful online businesses.

Jitendra Vaswani is a Digital Marketing Practitioner & international keynote speaker currently living a digital nomad lifestyle. He is the founder of Internet Marketing blog BloggersIdeas.com & digital marketing agency Digiexe.com, where he interviewed marketing legends like Neil Patel, Grant Cardone, & Rand Fishkin.

During his more than 8 years long expertise in Digital Marketing, Jitendra has been a marketing consultant, trainer, speaker and author of “Inside A Hustler’s Brain : In Pursuit of Financial Freedom” which has sold over 20,000 copies, worldwide & contributor of “International Best Selling Author of Growth Hacking Book 2”.

He has trained 10,000+ digital marketing professionals to date and has been conducting Digital marketing workshops across the globe.

His ultimate goal is to help people build businesses through digitization and make them realize that dreams do come true if you stay driven.

Website | Twitter

Lisa Siefert

Lisa uses her experience as a bestselling author to create tutorials, online courses, and digital downloads that help other creators succeed.

Lisa Siefert is the only self-declared Planner Designer in the world and the one-woman team behind Pretty Fabulous Designs.

She's taught thousands of creatives how to create & sell beautiful digital downloads using Adobe InDesign. If it has to do with creating pretty pages, she's your girl. Lisa is 100% self-taught and she can teach you, too.

Lisa is also a USA Today Bestselling Author of cozy mysteries and a devoted kitty cat mom.

Website | YouTube

Jeff Cobb

Jeff helps coaches, consultants, authors, speakers, and trainers build successful expertise-based businesses.

Jeff Cobb is a seasoned entrepreneur with more than two decades of experience in the online education business. After successfully launching, growing, and selling his own learning management system and online course business, he went on to co-found Tagoras, the parent company of Learning Revolution, where he helps organizations and entrepreneurs maximize the reach, revenue, and impact of their learning businesses.
 
Jeff is the author of multiple books, including Leading the Learning Revolution: The Expert's Guide to Capitalizing on the Exploding Lifelong Education Market. He’s the co-host of the long-running Leading Learning Podcast and he speaks and writes regularly on the connection between learning, innovation, and transformation for both businesses and individuals.

Website | Masterclass | Podcast

Paul Jarvis

As the co-founder of Fathom Analytics, Paul is building a simple, fast, and privacy-focused Google Analytics alternative for businesses across industries.

Paul Jarvis is the co-founder of Fathom Analytics, which is an analytics tool focused on simplicity privacy.

Paul and his co-founder created Fathom as a way for creators to get important information while also maintaining their users' privacy.

Website

Thibaut de Lataillade

With GetApp, Thibaut gives businesses and entrepreneurs the tools they need to find the software that best meets their needs.

Thibaut de Lataillade is the GVP of GetApp and has over 25 years of leadership and technology experience.

GetApp is one of the oldest and most thorough software review sites, helping consumers find the right software for their goals.

Website | Twitter

Pete Matheson

Pete uses his platform as an educator, coach, and YouTuber to provide honest and in-depth software reviews and tech insights.

In March of 2020, Pete sold his IT Business. Since then, Pete has become a content creator on YouTube, amassing almost 40,000 subscribers in 2 years and working with many well-known tech brands, including Google, 1Password and Synology. 

In addition, Pete created an online course to help other IT Business owners by sharing his real-life experience of growing a business from 0 to over $1m in revenue in 6 years.

Pete also offers a limited number of 1:1 Coaching sessions to work closely with IT Business Owners with challenges in their business.

Website | YouTube | Twitter

Stewart Gauld

Stewart equips entrepreneurs and small business owners with the knowledge, skills, and tools they need to grow successful online businesses.

Stewart has been running a digital media and marketing agency over the past 5 years.

During this time he also shifted his attention onto small business education . He loves creating video tutorials and articles aimed at helping small business owners transition online by helping them learn about with the right tools, skills and knowledge.

Website | YouTube

Brad Colbow

Brad's videos, articles, and courses help illustrators choose and make the most of technology, software, and tools.

Brad Colbow reviews technology for creative professionals, helping aspiring people to find the best technology for art.

Brad's YouTube channel has over 40 million views and contains videos on hardware, software, and everything digital creatives need to further their hobbies.

Website | YouTube

Werner Geyser

In founding Influencer Marketing Hub, Werner has built a valuable collection of how-to guides, courses, and research reports for brands and marketers.

Werner Geyser is the founder of Influencer Marketing Hub, a media company based out of Copenhagen.

At Influencer Marketing Hub, Werner and his team put together useful how-to guides, courses, and research reports to help people learn more about the creator industry.

Website | Twitter

TechGumbo

Through detailed reviews and tutorials, TechGumbo keeps their audience up to date on the latest technology, software, and hardware.

TechGumbo is one of the largest technology channels on YouTube, providing hundreds of videos on the latest technology and reviews.

They cover technology in simple, easy-to-understand language so creators are able to learn new skills and decide on the next tools to purchase for their businesses.

YouTube

Ewen Finser

Ewen uses 10+ years of experience blogging and building websites to help entrepreneurs feels more confident in the business tools they purchase and use.

Ewen Finser is an expert at building technology websites, with a portfolio of over 150 sites.

Ewen started TheDigitalMerchant as a venue to provide honest assessments of the tools and strategies he and his team use to grow their businesses over the past decade.

Website 

Steve Benjamins

Steve tests and reviews every website builder on the market to help creators and entrepreneurs choose the one that meets their needs.

Steve Benjamins is the creator of Site Builder Report, one of the most in-depth and useful websites to help people decide on the best website builder for them.

Steve also runs the Site Builder Report YouTube channel, which contains useful and entertaining reviews of site-building options for creators.

Website | YouTube

Bruce Hogan

As a serial entrepreneur, Bruce has launched several successful projects that help creators and entrepreneurs succeed.

Bruce Hogan is a SaaS expert and has been involved in several companies, including CEO of SoftwarePundit, The SaaS Studio, and Director of Growth Marketing for Teachers Pay Teachers.

Website