Ricardo Fayet

I am co-founder of one of the most exciting startups in the publishing industry. Well, for me it's the most exciting startup ever, but that would sound a bit pretentious on a Linkedin profile, right? I slowly immersed myself in the publishing industry a few years ago, and co-founded Reedsy to create the world's leading marketplace of publishing professionals. Today, Reedsy connects a community of over 150,000 authors worldwide to a curated network of 1,500 handpicked freelance professionals: from editors to cover designers, illustrators, book marketers and publicists. We help bring over 500 books to life, every month. For the vanity stuff: Reedsy was named "BookTech Company of 2015" by UK trade magazine The Bookseller, and won the "Quantum Innovation Publishing Award" at London Book Fair in 2016. I've been invited to speak at the Frankfurt Book Fair, London Book Fair, NINC, and dozens of other writing and publishing conferences. I also wrote a piece for GigaOM a few days before they shut down. They blame me. In my spare time, I read (a lot) and watch and write about football – the real European stuff.