Who is Taylor?
Taylor Trusty is the co-founder of Newslever, a competitor intelligence platform acquired by Similarweb in 2025. Newslever’s daily digests are read by tens of thousands of leaders at companies including NASDAQ, Deloitte, and Airbus.
He is an 11-year member of Entrepreneurs’ Organization and co-host of Founder Secrets, a long-running podcast interviewing founders, including leaders of Zeffy, OpenWeb, and Wandering Bear Coffee.
Before Newslever, Taylor co-founded Blackstone Media, a digital agency acquired in 2018. He taught himself to code at 13 and launched his first ecommerce company at 19.
A Kentucky native who spent eight years in New York City, Taylor now lives in Southern California with his wife and their goldendoodle. He enjoys geeking out about cold outbound email, mountain biking, and stand-up comedy.
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