Michael is a founder, speaker, and investor known for building and scaling consumer technology and brand-driven businesses.
Michael is a founder, speaker, and investor known for building and scaling consumer technology and brand-driven businesses.
He is a General Partner at Science Inc., a Santa Monica-based venture studio that co-founds companies from day zero and helps founders turn early conviction into operating momentum—product, distribution, hiring, and go-to-market execution.
In 2011, Jones founded Science Inc. to apply a studio approach to company creation—embedding with founders from inception through scale. Science has co-founded, incubated, and backed companies that have collectively reached over $6.1 billion in enterprise value, including Liquid Death, Dollar Shave Club, and MeUndies.
Jones later became CEO of MySpace in 2010, leading the platform through a major product transition and organizational rebuild during one of the most closely-watched turnarounds in consumer tech.
Before Science, Jones helped shape early waves of social and digital media. He co-founded Userplane, a real-time chat and community platform that was acquired by AOL in 2006, embedding the technology across AIM, Bebo, and other major AOL web properties.
Mike is a frequent public speaker on founder psychology, the human traits behind outsized outcomes, and how modern tools—including AI—are changing the way people build companies, make decisions, and reinvent themselves.
Michael delivers talks that move beyond inspiration into transformation. Blending founder experience with insight into AI and modern leadership, he leaves audiences with sharper thinking, deeper self-awareness, and the conviction to build what comes next.
A sharp, personal talk about what happens when you use AI not as advice, but as a high-bandwidth mirror for behavior and decision-making. Michael shares the system he built to map traits, patterns, and blindspots across his own life—and how that model is now being turned into a platform called Human Architecture.
A usable model for “AI as reflection,” prompts that reveal patterns, and a way to turn insight into action without outsourcing agency.
Breakout outcomes often come from high-agency, intense, sometimes polarizing personalities. Michael unpacks why the traits that make someone hard to work with are often the same ones that make them capable of building something extraordinary—and how to tell the difference between signal and chaos.
A lens for evaluating temperament, early warning signals, and operating tactics for high-stakes, high-tension founding teams.
A clear-eyed look at how social platforms shape attention, identity, incentives, and culture—from someone who has built, run, and invested across every era of social media.
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A few interviews and profiles that reflect my work building and backing category-defining companies.
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A deep dive on the Science studio model, venture mechanics, and what actually scales.
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Frameworks for product, distribution, and brand.
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An accessible explainer of the studio thesis + lessons learned across cycles.
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A profile on building companies in LA and the long arc of the Science platform.
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Rapid-fire takes on leadership, operating cadence, and how to pick winnable markets.
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Career lessons, reinvention, and building through volatility.
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The studio approach to creating breakout brands (Liquid Death, etc.).
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Coverage of Science’s venture-building engine.
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Operator advice on clarity, momentum, and execution.
ReadWhether it’s enhancing consumer experiences, creating new economic opportunities, or innovating on new technologies, the common thread at Science is that we nurture the brand from the beginning.
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