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Adam Delehanty

Special Projects at Duolingo

New York, New York

Overview 

Adam Delehanty is the Founder of Ghost Agency LLC and a former Partner and Head of Marketing & Content at Variant Fund. With a background in marketing, communications, and content strategy, he has successfully led teams and projects at prominent organizations like GLG and Imprint Projects. Delehanty's career highlights include founding his own agency, Ghost, and serving as a key marketing and content leader at Variant Fund, focusing on investments in Web3/Crypto and Web3/Blockchain sectors.

Work Experience 

  • Special Projects

    2024 - Current

Duolingo is a language-learning education platform that offers 98 total courses across nearly 40 distinct languages.

Raised $183,300,000.00 from General Atlantic, Durable Capital Partners and Arctic Ventures.

  • Founder & CEO

    2021

    Ghost is how brilliant people scale their best ideas. We are a content and ghostwriting agency for founders, investors and brands. Clients: Google Duolingo Hinge Eventbrite Andy Dunn Bain Capital Variant Fund Meltem Demirors Lens PJC Capital DoubleDown Fund Activant Capital Rabbithole SONA Lore Daylight Sorcero Okcoin Layer3 Park Rangers Capital Unshackled Ventures Ascend + more...

  • Special Projects

    2021

    Writing projects with Founder Justin McLeod, most notably the 2021 book "How We Do Things," as well as its 2nd edition in 2024. https://hinge.co/mission/#how-we-do-things

Hinge is a social discovery network helping users meet new people through an application.

Raised $20,600,000.00 from Middleland Capital, CAA Ventures, Lowercase Capital, Lumia Capital, Brainchild Holdings, Shasta Ventures, Eniac Ventures, Slow Ventures and Great Oaks Venture Capital.

  • Partner and Head of Marketing & Content

    2022 - 2023

    https://variant.fund/

Variant is an early-stage venture firm investing in crypto networks & platforms building The Ownership Economy.

  • Member - Mixing Board

    2021 - 2023

    Senior leaders from the world's most recognized brands. Our community members are CMOs, heads of comms, seasoned brand strategists, social and content experts, community builders, researchers, speechwriters, and policy veterans. We share insight and experience, supporting and learning from each other, seeking to elevate our practice and the work.

Mixing Board offers mentorship and helps with building teams to organizations looking for smart advice.

  • VP of Marketing

    2017 - 2019

  • Director, Marketing and Communications

    2016 - 2017

The world's insight network.

Raised $212,000,000.00 from SFW Capital Partners.

  • Many hats

    2014 - 2015

    Imprint Projects is a post-advertising creative agency. Our mission is to replace advertising with cultural production and dialogue. We elevate the world’s most influential brands with cultural content, experiences, and community programming. This work supports an industry of collaboration, enriching businesses and our creative communities.

  • Associate

    2013 - 2014

The leading destination brand company in the US. We Make Brands Work.

  • Organizer

    2012 - 2012

Organizing for Action is a movement of millions of Americans, coming together to fight for real, lasting change.

  • Writer

    2011 - 2012

R/GA offers advertising and marketing services.

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