I'm the guy you call when your show needs to keep airing, your CEO needs to sound human on tape, and your files need to stop disappearing between time zones. 2,000+ interviews. Behind the scenes at Al Jazeera, EO, Entrepreneur, Inc., and Cal Fussman.
PR firms hire me when their client is brilliant but can't quite get the story out. I sit down with the founder (Google product managers, venture-backed CEOs, the occasional White House correspondent) and pull out the real thing underneath. Their team takes what comes out of that conversation and turns it into the Forbes pitch, the bio, the one-pager, the segment prep. It's the part of PR that actually decides whether the press shows up.
The work: Brought in to run high-stature strategy sessions and the interview track for five-figure branding accounts, including Google product managers and global founders.
The outcome: I take a complicated career history, pull the real philosophy out of it in conversation, and hand back print-ready material that's built to clear Forbes feature criteria.
The work: Retained to interview and prep high-profile founders, innovators, and brand builders right before their press campaigns go live.
The outcome: Fast-moving entrepreneurs slow down, trust me inside of a few minutes, and clearly explain what their business actually does, so the publicists walk away with the real angle they need to book the segment.
The work: Tapped to run intensive narrative calls with fast-scaling tech founders, venture-backed leaders, and corporate executives.
The outcome: I cut through the corporate jargon and turn scattered talking points into a structured story the agency can drop straight into a tier-1 business press pitch.
"In the digital world one can get lost along the way, then there are people like Phillip that are pioneers in paving the way. His wisdom and experience is invaluable as well as his refreshing dialog and insight to a lot of subjects."
Peers I've worked with. Students I've trained.
"Phillip is a world-class facilitator who can handle complex product strategy and room dynamics completely in his sleep. I'm always looking for opportunities to collaborate with him because of his absolute reliability, his technical stature, and how he shows up for cross-functional teams."
"Phillip has an un-fakeable ability to get high-stature founders, tech executives, and stakeholders to let their guard down and trust him immediately. His deep-dive consultations consistently map their core philosophies flawlessly."
"Phillip is the most disarming and intuitive conversationalist in the industry. His ability to turn an interview into a thoughtful consideration of topics is a gift. He is also a considerate connector and a person who makes things around him better."
"I loved Phillip's style of sharing memorable, real-world examples. He changed how our cohort thought about product strategy when he showed us that it's not just about racing to a solution — it's about asking the right diagnostic questions to define the true problem first."
"Phillip's real-time support during the roadmap builds was excellent. He has an incredible ability to field complex architecture questions instantly, keeping global engineering cohorts moving forward without losing steam."
"Phillip brings a rare, contagious energy to complex operational training. He has a masterful way of breaking down rigid project management theory into practical, day-one execution."
A small AI helper for clinical teams so they can get through behavioral compliance checks in a fraction of the time, without missing anything. Built on Replit with React, Node, Postgres, and GPT-4o, with the right guardrails so it doesn't go off-script.
Try the PrototypeMigrated their site to a clean Replit setup with no downtime, and tuned the whole thing so the agency's premium clients actually stick around to read it. A simple, fast site that does its job.
See the SiteI sit down with venture-backed founders, the investors writing the checks, and the operators scaling them. Long-form conversations, on camera, about what actually builds a company versus what makes a good headline.
The conversations I want to have, the way I want to have them. Long-form, unhurried, and produced entirely by me. Jay Samit, builders, thinkers, and the occasional friend with a story worth telling.
Two books I wrote. One EP I made.
Winner, SoundCloud x Hyundai Tomorrow's Breakthrough Artists, 2025
How to think for yourself when everyone around you is thinking the same thing.
A short read on why everything you own quietly costs you something, and what to do about it.
My EP. Released under the name Lanos. Out now everywhere you listen to music.
I look at your whole operation (how your show gets made, where your files live, what tools you're paying for) and tell you exactly where the time and money are leaking. You walk away with a clear, visual write-up you can hand to your team on Monday.
I become part of your team. I run the production schedule, keep the files organized so nothing gets lost between time zones, keep your remote crew on the same page, and make sure the right people are getting the right tape on the right day. You stop chasing your media, and it starts working for you.
There's a job your team does over and over that an AI could do in a fraction of the time. Tagging episodes, drafting show notes, sorting clips, writing first-draft pitches. I build the little tool that handles it, on your data, with guardrails so it stays on-script. Shipped on Replit, yours to keep.