Dennis Steele

Dennis Steele is the Co-Founder of Podium, the leading AI employee platform helping local businesses convert leads and drive revenue. Founded in 2014, Podium is trusted by more than 100,000 businesses across the U.S., Canada, and Australia and is scaling one of the fastest-growing AI products in the world. Prior to co-founding Podium in 2014 and taking it through Y Combinator in 2015, Steele worked in public relations and marketing to help businesses build and manage their online reputation. It was from this experience of manually managing online reputations that helped sparked the inspiration for what Podium is today. His work and focus on local business and helping them to build thriving businesses has been recognized across the industry, including Forbes’ Next Billion Dollar Startups, Forbes’ Cloud 100, the Inc. 5000 (#13), and Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies. In his free time Steele, an avid foodie, enjoys playing basketball, cooking, and spending time with his wife, Whitney and four children.