Lucas Dickey
CEO of DeepCast Pro
Los Angeles, California
Overview
Work Experience
CEO (+CPO) & Co-Founder
2023 - Current
DeepCast: Podcasting Supercharged. Our AI-powered platform offers intelligent search, in-depth episode insights, and sharing across networks - all in one place. Includes the listener experience at www.deepcast.fm and the marketing & monetization tool for podcasters at www.deepcast.pro. Fun tech, real mission & value, tons to learn -- exactly what a team wants to work on! Okapi Ventures, American Public Media Group's Horizon Ventures, and Automattic are key partners in this endeavor, plus operator investors from Amazon, Snap, Airbnb, Idealab, Replit, Webflow and more.
Deepcast.fm is a technology company that reimagines the familiar with infused intelligence and amplified experience.
Raised $250,000.00 from Okapi Venture Capital.
Chief Vibe Officer
2025
A-OK is part interactive art, part satire, part brand, part fashion line, part learning-in-action. Get your AI nerdwear exclusively at www.a-ok.shop today today today (echo echo echo...) Vibe coder, image creator, agent instigator, automation maker, satirist, humorist, verbosity-ist, hallucinator, DevOperator, nonsense spewer, game creator, fulfiller, customer obsessor, ape lover.
Advisor
2019
Trellis Research is a state trial court legal research and analytics platform with AI-based insights on judges.
Raised $35,620,000.00 from Sky Dayton, Craft Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners, Headline, Revel Partners, Calibrate Ventures and Okapi Venture Capital.
Co-Founder, Board Director, Advisor
2021 - 2023
Co-Founder, CPTO
2017 - 2021
[acq. by Showroom/Vesta '23] Making it easier to live the way you want! "Get the furniture & décor you’ve always wanted, for as long as you need, at a low monthly fee." I formally owned product, engineering, and design. Plus quite a bit of utility playing in the early days.
Fernish is a furniture rental startup company that offers furniture as a subscription model to consumers living a mobile lifestyle.
Raised $71,057,920.00 from Anchor Capital GP, Forefront Venture Partners, Alumni Ventures, Everywhere Ventures, Serafund and NewBound Venture Capital.
Chief Product Officer
2022 - 2023
Azibo offers a one-stop-shop financial platform for landlords (and their renters!), predominantly SMB landlords with a handful of rental properties under management. (With all-star investor crew including SVB Capital, Canaan, QED, Camber Creek, RET, Moonshot, Squire, and more...)
Azibo is a financial services platform for rental properties that provides solutions for rent collection, banking, lending, and insurance.
Raised $19,000,000.00 from Camber Creek, Victory Park Capital, Assurant Ventures, Gaingels, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, Context Ventures, SVB Capital, Khosla Ventures, RET Ventures and Canaan Partners.
Entrepreneur In Residence
2021 - 2022
I'm collaborating closely with Mike McCormick, Ross Hale, and the rest of the Artisans to bootstrap a new business within Artium Studios.
Principal Product Manager
2017 - 2017
I could tell you, but I'd have to...well, not true, I can't tell you just yet. I left well before the product launchd in order to co-found a new venture. I wish this team well! [edit: exited to Ticketmaster]
Rival is a technology company building a platform for live events.
Raised $33,000,000.00 from Upfront Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.
Principal Product Manager
2016 - 2017
Built and owned advertising platform, BI platform and various data products; plus myriad contributions to internal tools, client features and marketing efforts. Also helped launch and operationalize across the US and Canada in the early days.
Vice President, Product
2012 - 2016
Managed product development, data science, and design. Also participated in/helped with corp dev, biz dev, ops, sales, account management and more. I was promoted from Assoc. Director, to Director, to VP. Participant: IAB's Mobile Location, OpenRTB, and Exchange Infrastructure Working Groups
Head of Product
2011 - 2012
Head of Product for the doubleTwist suite of apps (5+ on Android; Windows; WinRT; Mac), other nascent platform apps, and web services. I also engage in business development; managing customer service, quality assurance & engineering teams (and vendor resources); account management; press relations; marketing; community engagement and more -- shoot, I'm even checking in code these days! I see the forest, the trees, I plant new trees, harvest trees, import nutrient-rich soil for the trees, tell people about the trees, genetically modify the trees, and generally extend tree metaphors far beyond reasonable limits. In 18 months, contributed to +10MM growth in downloads, quadrupling of daily active users, tripling of monthly consumer revenues. Also, secured numerous Play Store (p/k/a Android Market) features & a Google I/O highlight and Android dev blog post, pushed 90+ client releases, facilitated implementation (and securing) of partnerships with numerous 3rd-party services and distribution partners (e.g. Qualcomm, T-Mobile, AT&T, Intel, Huawei, Gracenote, TrialPay), and landed coverage in CNET, WSJ and others. doubleTwist CrunchBase profile: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/doubletwist My interview with C|Net's "Android Atlas Weekly": http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19736_7-20064487-251.html
Education
BA
2000 - 2004
Masters in Legal Studies
2022 - 2022