Advisors
Our advisors bring deep expertise across capital, go-to-market, and AI product — supporting SocialMedium as it scales trusted network infrastructure globally.
Advisor - Strategy & Capital
David Gowdey
Managing Partner at Jungle Ventures. Deep experience in venture investing, scaling companies, and board-level strategy.
Advisor - Growth & GTM
Andrea Kowalski
Global go-to-market and operations advisor with experience scaling early-stage and growth companies across the US, APAC, and Europe.
Advisor - AI Technology & Product
Salil Pandit
Global AI product and engineering leader with experience across advanced R&D and enterprise-scale platforms.
An AI-powered introduction engine
for trusted networks
Autonomous networking.
The internet transformed how we find information.
Search turned chaos into order.
LLMs now make discovery instant, contextual, and intelligent.
Professional networks haven’t made that leap — until now.
Professional introductions are undergoing the same shift taxis once did.
Searching, waving, and guessing are removed — replaced by automatic, context-aware matching.
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No browsing
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No shouting
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Just matching
The shift
Why us
We’ve built trusted professional networks the hard way — by hand.
For over 25 years, we’ve run thousands of searches and introductions across executive search, venture, and private capital, spanning 40+ cities.
SocialMedium is the system we wish we’d had — now built with AI.
This is not a networking experiment; it’s infrastructure built by people who’ve done the work the hard way.
Founder
Jonathan Tanner
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25+ years building and operating high-trust professional networks across executive search, venture advisory, and private capital. Founder of MitchelLake Group. Deep experience turning relationship-driven work into repeatable systems.
Head of Product
Omid Pakseresht
Oxford-trained in AI and mathematics. 12+ years designing and shipping AI-driven products, specialising in translating advanced models into usable, scalable systems.
Head of Engineering & AI
Nima Pakseresht
PhD in Computer Science with 20 years’ experience in AI, machine learning, and complex systems. Built and deployed production-grade AI across finance, life sciences, and enterprise environments.
Reading & Research
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How LinkedIn became the new Yellow Pages—and why that's a trillion-dollar opportunity
The Yellow Pages worked beautifully—until they didn't. Google Search was revolutionary—until it became an advertising billboard masquerading as an answer engine. And LinkedIn? Well, LinkedIn is completing its own magnificent self-immolation.
But here's what Rory Sutherland would call the "psycho-logic" of it: we're so busy staring at the trees, we've missed the forest entirely. The evolution from directories → search → social → agentic AI isn't just happening to networking. It's the very pattern that's been reshaping every information system for thirty years.
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Innovation Doesn’t Live in Silos—It Emerges from the Collective Brain
This research from LSE explores how innovation arises not just from individual insight, but through the structure, diversity, and fidelity of human networks. Ideas evolve through serendipity, recombination, and incremental improvement—amplified by the right social architecture.
At SocialMedium, we see agentic AI not as the brain, but as the connective tissue that helps communities think better together.
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From Listings to Agents: How AI is Redefining Networking Beyond Google and LinkedIn
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In the 1990s, listings solved “where do I find this thing?” (think Yellow Pages, Craigslist).
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In the 2000s, search solved “how do I navigate the infinite sprawl of the web?” (Google).
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In the 2010s, social networks solved “how do I connect to people, ideas, and tribes?” (Facebook, LinkedIn).
Now in the 2020s, we’re at the next inflexion point: agentic AI. Large language models (LLMs) have quietly eroded the utility of traditional search.
So what's next for social networks?!
If this resonates,
let's talk
SocialMedium is opening access selectively.
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Community owners & members
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Investors
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Talent
Join us in Barcelona to help build the infrastructure behind the next generation of professional collaboration.