Jon Rosen

President

at Great Dwellings Inc

Jon Rosen is a serial entrepreneur and an original Mucker Capital advisor. He’s currently the President and owner of Great Dwellings; a fast growth, tech enabled Airbnb partner, after leading a 2019 Nasdaq IPO as CEO of EVMO. He was a Mentor and Chief Revenue Officer at Involve.ai, a Mucker company that raised $26M in venture funding. Jon was an advisory Board Member at Beachfront Media, acquired by Seedtag in 2024; and Advanced Contextual, recently acquired by Azerion. Jon has been a senior permanent or interim executive with startup media and tech ventures in Southern California and the East Coast. Jon was the head of strategy and business development for AOL (NYSE: AOL) Search and Directional Media when they held 10% of US search traffic. He was the founding President of IProspect; the 9,000 person Dentsu-owned archetype for today’s Search Marketing firms. Jon was the SVP at Autobytel (NASDAQ: ABTL), CRO for Webvisible and Spot Runner. In addition to his media background Jon was an executive in four storage and middle-ware firms that were purchased or went public.

California

DTC (Direct-to-Consumer), Other, SaaS & B2B Marketplace, Social Media & Community Platforms

Business Model DevelopmentBusiness Strategycorporate and business development. partnershipssales

Articles by Jon Rosen

The Founder’s Mental Health Playbook: What I Learned After Nearly Burning Out

A hard-won guide to staying mentally healthy while building a startup I founded Stitcher, the podcast platform, in 2007 and ran it for seven years until we sold in 2014....

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) for Early Stage Companies

In our latest session from the Mucker Growth Series featuring Ethan Smith from Graphite, we explored AEO, a significant new approach for optimizing visibility in AI-driven search, particularly relevant as...

Startup Guide to AI Visibility: Be the Brand ChatGPT Recommends

Introduction Today, users aren’t just searching on Google. They’re asking ChatGPT, Claude, Google’s Gemini, Perplexity, and other AI systems for advice. AI visibility is the new frontier of brand awareness....

Practical Uses of AI & Automation for Startup Operations

In a recent Mucker Growth Series session, we invited Rock Vitale, Founder & CEO of Easie, to share how he’s helped early-stage teams move from manual, fragmented workflows to streamlined,...

2025 New York Tech Week Recap Of Mucker Sessions

Last week during New York Tech Week 2025, we joined more than 1,000 events hosted by founders, investors, and VCs. This post is a full Mucker recap of the three...

How to Build a Customer Support Function for Startups Using AI Tools with Alex Velinov

Delivering high-quality customer support can be one of the most resource-draining parts of a startup. The good news: we’re at a turning point where founders can use AI tools to...