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Ryan Holmes

  • Founder and CEO, Hootsuite and Contributor, Freelance
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Canadian entrepreneur & angel investor. Lover of dogs, owls and the outdoors. founder of @hootsuite @loiaccelerator and @loiventure.
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Ryan Holmes founded Hootsuite in 2008, growing the company from a lean startup to a global leader in social media with over 11 million users, including 744 of the Fortune 1000 companies.

Thought leader, dog lover and serial entrepreneur, Ryan has redefined the face of social media—bringing Twitter, Facebook and other social networks out of the dorm room and into the boardroom. A college drop-out, he started a paintball company and pizza restaurant before founding Invoke Media, the company that …

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AI for social media just got a new standard: Here’s what we built

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By Ryan Holmes
| blog.hootsuite.com
Ryan Holmes co-founded Hootsuite in 2008 and stepped back into the role of Chief Executive Officer in 2026, returning to the company he spent over a decade building. A serial entrepreneur and software developer by background, Ryan brings a builder's instinct and deep AI expertise to a defining moment for the industry — as AI reshapes how marketing leaders understand customers and act on social data.
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Why Hootsuite is going headless, and why that’s just the start

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By Ryan Holmes
| blog.hootsuite.com
The first month, I’m told, is for listening. I’ve done some of that. But fifteen days in, the picture is already sharper than that script implies. Here’s my honest view of where we are and where we’re going. For two decades, social media management has been defined by the screen: a dashboard, a calendar, a publishing queue, an inbox. Hootsuite arguably invented that screen. Millions of marketers, agencies, and care teams open it every morning. But the screen was never the value.
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Can We Save Social Media? Yes, We Have No Choice

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By Ryan Holmes
| Forbes Verified
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 12: Members of the U.S. National Guard arrive at the U.S. Capitol on ... [+] January 12, 2021 in Washington, DC. Getty Images Another election. Another crisis. Another case of social media in the crosshairs. The 2016 U.S. presidential election was marked by sustained, and exhaustively documented, interference by Russia on Facebook.
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