Richard Ryan
Richard Ryan
Richard Ryan takes you inside the surveillance economy — how Big Tech tracks your behavior, monetizes your attention, and shapes your decisions without your informed consent. Hosted by bestselling author Richard Ryan — whose book The Warrior's Garden won Grand Prize at the 2025 San Francisco Book Festival — this show gives you the insider's view of the algorithms, incentives, and design tactics driving the modern internet, and the practical tools to take back control.
Richard isn't a critic looking in from the outside. He's a software developer, media executive, and tech industry veteran with more than twenty years inside the machine. He built a YouTube app that hit the App Store four years before YouTube's own. He co-founded Black Rifle Coffee Company and helped grow it into a publicly traded company with a $1.7 billion valuation. He launched Rated Red with Verizon Media and Hearst, growing it to over one million organic subscribers in its first year. And as a content creator