
David Kidder
Co-Founder + CEO at Bionic, New York Times Best Selling Author
David S. Kidder is an experienced entrepreneur and an angel investor in over 40 companies. He is currently the Co-founder and CEO of Bionic. Bionic installs proprietary solutions, designed to unlock new growth and competitiveness for the world’s largest enterprises, based on the models, methods, talent, and tools of venture capital and entrepreneurship.
David is an accomplished entrepreneur for 25 years with 2 successful exits. Early angel investments include SpaceX and Airbnb.
David’s audience is engaged and numbers more than 5,000. He is happy to share your episode with his fans!
- Millionaire Maker
- Influencer
- Podcast Pro
- Entrepreneur
- 📍 New York, NY
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David S. Kidder is an experienced entrepreneur and an angel investor in over 40 companies. He is currently the Co-founder and CEO of Bionic. Bionic installs proprietary solutions, designed to unlock new growth and competitiveness for the world's largest enterprises, based on the models, methods, talent, and tools of venture capital and entrepreneurship. Prior to Bionic, Kidder served as the Co-founder and CEO of Clickable, an online advertising software-as-a-service startup (acquired by Syncapse).
Before Clickable, Kidder co-founded SmartRay Network, a mobile advertising pioneer (acquired by LifeMinders). He is an active angel investor in over 40 startups through his funds, Alt Option Return and the Bionic Fund, and he is a founding member and advisor to The Acumen Fund One Percent Fund, Venture for America, and YPO Global One. He has also served on the National Board of the Smithsonian. Kidder received ID Magazine's International Design Award and Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2008. He is the creator and co-author of the two-time New York Times bestselling five-book series, The Intellectual Devotional, published by Rodale, and The Startup Playbook, published by Chronicle Books.
His latest book, New To Big, was published in April 2019 by Currency. He is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology and lives in Westchester County, New York, with his wife and three sons.

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David Kidder
Co-Founder + CEO at Bionic, New York Times Best Selling Author
- Millionaire Maker
- Influencer
- Podcast Pro
- Entrepreneur
- 📍 New York, NY
David S. Kidder is an experienced entrepreneur and an angel investor in over 40 companies. He is currently the Co-founder and CEO of Bionic. Bionic installs proprietary solutions, designed to unlock new growth and competitiveness for the world’s largest enterprises, based on the models, methods, talent, and tools of venture capital and entrepreneurship.
David is an accomplished entrepreneur for 25 years with 2 successful exits. Early angel investments include SpaceX and Airbnb.
David’s audience is engaged and numbers more than 5,000. He is happy to share your episode with his fans!
read more
Let's talk about
Let's talk about
- New to big growth
- Business transformation
- Growth mindset
- Disruptions from outside forces
- Thinking like a founder
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David S. Kidder is an experienced entrepreneur and an angel investor in over 40 companies. He is currently the Co-founder and CEO of Bionic. Bionic installs proprietary solutions, designed to unlock new growth and competitiveness for the world's largest enterprises, based on the models, methods, talent, and tools of venture capital and entrepreneurship. Prior to Bionic, Kidder served as the Co-founder and CEO of Clickable, an online advertising software-as-a-service startup (acquired by Syncapse).
Before Clickable, Kidder co-founded SmartRay Network, a mobile advertising pioneer (acquired by LifeMinders). He is an active angel investor in over 40 startups through his funds, Alt Option Return and the Bionic Fund, and he is a founding member and advisor to The Acumen Fund One Percent Fund, Venture for America, and YPO Global One. He has also served on the National Board of the Smithsonian. Kidder received ID Magazine's International Design Award and Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2008. He is the creator and co-author of the two-time New York Times bestselling five-book series, The Intellectual Devotional, published by Rodale, and The Startup Playbook, published by Chronicle Books.
His latest book, New To Big, was published in April 2019 by Currency. He is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology and lives in Westchester County, New York, with his wife and three sons.
BOOK NOW FOR your podcast
David Kidder
Co-Founder + CEO at Bionic, New York Times Best Selling Author
- 📍 New York, NY
- Millionaire Maker
- Influencer
- Entrepreneur
David S. Kidder is an experienced entrepreneur and an angel investor in over 40 companies. He is currently the Co-founder and CEO of Bionic. Bionic installs proprietary solutions, designed to unlock new growth and competitiveness for the world’s largest enterprises, based on the models, methods, talent, and tools of venture capital and entrepreneurship.
David is an accomplished entrepreneur for 25 years with 2 successful exits. Early angel investments include SpaceX and Airbnb.
David’s audience is engaged and numbers more than 5,000. He is happy to share your episode with his fans!
read more
Let's talk about
- New to big growth
- Business transformation
- Growth mindset
- Disruptions from outside forces
- Thinking like a founder
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David S. Kidder is an experienced entrepreneur and an angel investor in over 40 companies. He is currently the Co-founder and CEO of Bionic. Bionic installs proprietary solutions, designed to unlock new growth and competitiveness for the world's largest enterprises, based on the models, methods, talent, and tools of venture capital and entrepreneurship. Prior to Bionic, Kidder served as the Co-founder and CEO of Clickable, an online advertising software-as-a-service startup (acquired by Syncapse).
Before Clickable, Kidder co-founded SmartRay Network, a mobile advertising pioneer (acquired by LifeMinders). He is an active angel investor in over 40 startups through his funds, Alt Option Return and the Bionic Fund, and he is a founding member and advisor to The Acumen Fund One Percent Fund, Venture for America, and YPO Global One. He has also served on the National Board of the Smithsonian. Kidder received ID Magazine's International Design Award and Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2008. He is the creator and co-author of the two-time New York Times bestselling five-book series, The Intellectual Devotional, published by Rodale, and The Startup Playbook, published by Chronicle Books.
His latest book, New To Big, was published in April 2019 by Currency. He is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology and lives in Westchester County, New York, with his wife and three sons.
New York Times best selling author

Most established companies face a key survival challenge, says David Kidder, CEO of Bionic, lifelong entrepreneur, and angel investor in more than thirty startups: operational efficiency and outdated bureaucracy are at war with new growth. Legacy companies are skilled at growing big businesses into even bigger ones. But they are less adept at discovering new opportunities and turning them into big businesses, the way entrepreneurs and early-stage investors must. In New to Big, Kidder and Wallace reveal their proprietary blueprint for installing a permanent growth capability inside any company–the Growth Operating System.

Going insider to insider with unprecedented access, New York Times bestselling author and Clickable CEO, David Kidder, shares the hard-hitting experiences of some of the world’s most influential entrepreneurs and CEOs, revealing their most closely held advice. Face-to-face interviews with 40 founders give readers key insights into what it took to build PayPal, LinkedIn, AOL, TED, Flickr, and many others into household names. Special sections include topics ranging from how to select the right idea to pursue to finding funding and overcoming inevitable obstacles. In an economy demanding change, The Startup Playbook is the go-to for entrepreneurs big and small.

This daily digest of intellectual challenge and learning will arouse curiosity, refresh knowledge, expand horizons, and keep the mind sharp.
Millions of Americans keep bedside books of prayer and meditative reflection—collections of daily passages to stimulate spiritual thought and advancement. The Intellectual Devotional is a secular version of the same—a collection of 365 short lessons that will inspire and invigorate the reader every day of the year. Each daily digest of wisdom is drawn from one of seven fields of knowledge: history, literature, philosophy, mathematics and science, religion, fine arts, and music.
Timeline
Jan 2013 – Present
Co-Founder – Bionic
Bionic is a collective of radical outsiders who have founded and scaled companies, in all sectors and around the world. We’re entrepreneurs, investors, futurists, and makers, and together, we ignite growth within large companies.
Bionic installs a proprietary solution designed to unlock new growth and competitiveness for the world’s largest enterprises, based on the models, methods, talent, and tools of venture capital and entrepreneurship.
Jun 2010 – Present
Managing Partner – Alt Option Return
Alt Option Return is an early stage investment fund founded by David S. Kidder and Martin L. Schoffstall. It is primarily focused on seed stage investing in companies in New York.
Alt Option Return investments include: Art.sy, TapAd, MileWise (acquired by Yahoo), PayOff, HowAboutWe, BoostCTR, Maxwell Health, Content.ly, PopExpert, Lenndo, and Founders Fund III.
Read more: http://crunchbase.com/company/alt-option-return#ixzz2YS32nr6E
Aug 2011 – Jul 2013
National Board Member – Smithsonian Institution
Aug 2011 – Jul 2013
Co-Founder, CEO – Clickable, Inc.
Co-Founded in January 2007, Clickable was an all-in-one solution for online advertising. In one elegant experience, Clickable maximized online investment by connecting and optimizing digital channels with the social graph.
With Clickable’s award-winning Pro advertising tool and dedicated search and social advertising experts, marketers radically reduced the time and complexity of managing multiple ad formats and networks, such as Google, Bing, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and more. Clickable was acquired by Syncapse in June 2012.
Ask me
How can big businesses prepare themselves for disruption? |
What are the hurdles that today's businesses face when creating innovation/growth programs and how can they tackle them? |
How should business leaders position themselves to bring their company forward? |
Why is it so important for transformation efforts to happen in multiple levels of the company (i.e. why do you need systems for the C-suite, innovation teams/intrepreneurs, and mid management) What should a business do when their solutions no longer meet the customers' needs? |