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 (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. He 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 also served as 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 middleware firms that were either acquired or went public.
Articles by Jon Rosen
7 Steps to Build a Product That Sells Itself
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...
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...