Jon Bier on Muck Rack

Jon Bier

New York
As seen in: One Day with Jon Bier (Podcast), Apple Podcasts, MSN, Forbes, Yahoo Finance, Entrepreneur, Green Entrepreneur, Flipboard, EIN News, NewsBreak, PR Daily and
Give a Shit
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Jon

Contact Jon, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

This CEO Says Screen Addiction Is ‘the New Tobacco.’ Here’s What His Company Is Doing to Fight Back

|
By Jon Bier
| Entrepreneur
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Robin Thurston thinks the most dangerous product in modern life may be the screen staring right back at you. “This really is the new tobacco,” says the CEO of Outside Inc., who believes Silicon Valley has spent years engineering products designed to keep people indoors. “When you aggregate big tech into this, their primary goal is to capture our attention,” he says. Public sentiment is starting to catch up.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

This CEO Says Screen Addiction Is ‘the New Tobacco.’ Here’s What His Company Is Doing to Fight Back

|
By Jon Bier
| Yahoo Finance
Outside Inc Entrepreneur Media LLC and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some products and services through the links below. Key Takeaways Tech isn’t the enemy — the same mechanics that hook people to screens can push them outdoors. Consumers are shifting from buying products to buying experiences. Partnerships, not individual brands, will define the next era of the outdoor industry.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

These Founders Built a $60 Device That Solves Phone Addiction — Hundreds of Thousands of People Are Already Using It

|
By Jon Bier
| Entrepreneur
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The average American spends 20 years of their life staring at their phone. That’s about 5 to 6 hours a day mindlessly scrolling through apps. TJ Driver, 26, and Zach Nasgowitz, 27, had this exact problem. After graduating college, they were brainstorming business concepts, trying to come up with problems they could solve. But they noticed they’d constantly get distracted by looking at their phones. “We’d have all these ideas,” Driver says.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 80 licensed articles (81 Total)

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Get in touch with Jon

Contact Jon, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack
 •  Privacy  •  Terms  •  Security and Legal  •   •   •   • 

© 2026 Muck Rack

SOC 2® Certified