Taylor Trusty is a New York-based entrepreneur, speaker, and mentor.

Taylor Trusty
NYC-based Entrepreneur

Name: Taylor Trusty
Residence: New York City
Hometown: Louisville, KY
Choice Bourbon: Woodford
Favorite Comic: Tom Segura
Twitter: @ttrusty
LinkedIn: Taylor Trusty
Email: [email protected]

Who is Taylor?

Taylor Trusty is co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer at Newslever and Signal Insights, a better way of tracking your industry used by Toyota Material Handling, Nasdaq, Logitech, and others. He's also co-host of Founder Secrets, a podcast interviewing inspiring founders and discussing entrepreneur ideas, news, and experiences.

Previously he co-founded Blackstone Media, a digital marketing agency acquired in 2018. A self-proclaimed computer nerd, Taylor taught himself to code at the age of 13 and started his first company at 19. He’s passionate about learning, sharing funny memes, and technology.

Born in Kentucky, Taylor now lives in New York City, where you can most likely find him catching a show at Comedy Cellar, biking around the city, or scouring upstate New York for the best hikes.

Founder Secrets Podcast with Taylor & Flaviu

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Interviews and Press

Digital Agency Growth Podcast - Taylor Trusty

Interview - February 2022

Digital Agency Growth Podcast 118: Running & Selling an Agency

Have you ever been curious if the grass is greener on the other side of the fence of your agency? Taylor Trusty did. Turns out for him that grass was a software company, the fence was selling his agency, and the grass was greener on the other side.

Interview - May 2021

AVSocial 64: Cloak & Dagger

On today’s episode of AVSocial, we are discussing how competitive intelligence works, what it means to look at your fellow integrators for a potential change in the wind, and what it takes to keep these proceedings well above board.

Interview - March 2021

Solicited Advice: Zack Pennington

Unlike most entrepreneurship interview shows, we spend very little time talking about ourselves and instead focus on giving advice based on audience-submitted questions!

Interview - September 2020

The Leadership in Business - Episode 108

#108 Taylor Trusty, Co-founder and President at Signal Insights advised... "Seek out people who are where you want to be... and then go see them!"

Podcast - April 2020

Lessons Learned from Building and Selling an Agency in a Small Market

Why Taylor Trusty decided not to go to college, and why how he decided at a young age that he was going to focus on running his own business, and much more.

Podcast - March 2020

The Hot Mic: The Hard Road of Entrepreneurship

In this episode, we talk about the struggles that go into building a great business, and how not talking about the struggles ends up being a detriment to current and future business creators.

Podcast - Feb 2020

The Climb Ep. 5: Escaping, Life After an Agency & Starting a New Venture

In this episode, we laugh a lot, we get personal, we talk about being a business owner, selling an agency, crashing in front of an audience, and we serve up some meaty marketing tips along the way.

Interview - Nov 2019

Top 10 User Experience (UX) Trends Affecting Your eCommerce Store in 2020

Each week, we explore the industry’s hottest topics to inspire you and give you practical tools to improve your commerce business. Host, Guido Jansen, talks to the industry’s brightest minds.

Podcast - June 2019

Scaling Up Services - Episode 53

Scaling Up Services is a podcast devoted to helping founders, partners, CEOs, key executives, and managers of service-based businesses scale their companies faster and with less drama.

Press - October 2018

Lane Report: Blackstone Media merges with Boston, Mass. digital transformation agency

Blackstone Media Network, a Louisville-based digital marketing agency, has been acquired by The ADK Group (ADK) out of Boston, Mass., effective September 2018. The merger coincides with the Blackstone company rebrand, now known as Blackstone Digital.