Entrepreneur · Founder, Scaling.com · Keynote Speaker · Author
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to cover Blake Erickson.
“Big thinking is the starting point of all great achievement.”
— Blake Erickson
Approved photography, three bio lengths, verified credentials, and book data for Blake Erickson. Please use the files and copy on this page rather than pulling from social media. It keeps every citation accurate, and it saves you an email.
Last updated2026-10-28
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Photography
One primary portrait. Everything else is secondary.
Start with the primary portrait
If you only need one image, use the first file below. When the same portrait appears consistently across interviews, articles, show notes, and retail listings, search engines and AI assistants resolve it to one person with confidence. Variety across surfaces does the opposite.
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Primary portrait Use this one
Navy suit, seated, dark studio ground, full frame. The lead image for articles, speaker pages, podcast show notes and profiles. Use this file first everywhere so search engines and AI assistants learn one face. Crops cleanly to a head-and-shoulders portrait.
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2:3 · sRGB · credit: Courtesy of Blake Erickson
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Studio, chair
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4:3 · sRGB · credit: Courtesy of Blake Erickson
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Studio, black and white
White tee, relaxed. For features, long-form profiles and podcast art.
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3:4 · sRGB · credit: Courtesy of Blake Erickson
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On stage, warm light
Live keynote, warm light, dark space above for type.
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Headshot, light ground
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The Science of Scaling
Hardcover, 2025. Foreword by Tony Robbins. Use with any coverage of the book or the New York Times listing.
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Time is a Tool
Audiobook, 2025. Square format for podcast and audio platforms.
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Power Law Strategy
Hardcover, January 2027. Available for preorder.
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The record
Spellings, titles, pronunciation. Copy from here.
How to refer to Blake on first mention
Small inconsistencies compound. A misspelled surname or a dropped credential reads to a search engine as a potentially different person, which is why we keep this block current and ask you to copy from it rather than from an older article.
Blake Erickson
- First mention
- Blake Erickson
- Later mentions
- Erickson
- Please avoid
- Blake Ericksen · Blake Erikson · Blake Erickson Jr.
- Pronunciation
- BLAYK AIR-ik-son
- Descriptor
- Entrepreneur and founder of Scaling.com; co-author of The Science of Scaling
- Company
- Founder, Scaling.com
- Pronouns
- he / him
The books
- Titles
- The Science of Scaling · Time is a Tool · Power Law Strategy
- Co-author
- All three written with Dr. Benjamin Hardy
- Styling
- Italics, title case. Subtitles as listed in the book data table below.
- Company
- Scaling.com no space, lowercase .com
- Please avoid
- Time Is a Tool capital "Is" · Scaling Inc. · Rapid Transformation (retired working title)
Bios
Three lengths. Copy the one that fits your slot.
Approved bios, ready to paste
These are the current approved texts. Older bios circulating on speaking sites and podcast archives are out of date.
Short34 words
Blake Erickson is an entrepreneur, the founder of Scaling.com, and co-author, with Dr. Benjamin Hardy, of The Science of Scaling. He advises and speaks on how founders scale their companies without becoming the bottleneck.
Medium88 words
Blake Erickson is an entrepreneur, the founder of Scaling.com, a New York Times bestselling author, and an international keynote speaker.
Before launching Scaling.com, Blake built a door-to-door sales organization where he recruited, trained, and led more than 1,200 people in just four years.
Within 12 months of launching Scaling.com, the company grew to a $120 million valuation by applying the same frameworks and principles he now teaches to thousands of companies and founders around the world. Today, Scaling.com is helping normalize 10x scale in 3 years or less.
Before launching Scaling.com, Blake built a door-to-door sales organization where he recruited, trained, and led more than 1,200 people in just four years.
Within 12 months of launching Scaling.com, the company grew to a $120 million valuation by applying the same frameworks and principles he now teaches to thousands of companies and founders around the world. Today, Scaling.com is helping normalize 10x scale in 3 years or less.
Long224 words
Blake Erickson is an entrepreneur, the founder of Scaling.com, a New York Times bestselling author, and an international keynote speaker whose work centers on a single question: how do you scale a business without the founder becoming the ceiling on its growth?
Before launching Scaling.com, Blake built a door-to-door sales organization where he recruited, trained, and led more than 1,200 people in just four years. Within 12 months of launching Scaling.com, the company grew to a $120 million valuation by applying the same frameworks and principles he now teaches to thousands of companies and founders around the world. Today, Scaling.com is helping normalize 10x scale in 3 years or less.
With Dr. Benjamin Hardy he co-wrote The Science of Scaling, which debuted at No. 7 on the New York Times Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous best seller list in August 2025, along with Time is a Tool and Power Law Strategy, due from Hay House Business in January 2027. A 2026 Scaling.com study of 1,000 US business leaders at companies above $1 million in revenue found that 61% see themselves as a bottleneck in their own sales and marketing.
He speaks to founder, operator, and executive audiences on scaling, delegation, and focus, and has spoken at TEDx. He is represented for keynotes by All American Speakers. He lives in the greater Salt Lake City area.
Before launching Scaling.com, Blake built a door-to-door sales organization where he recruited, trained, and led more than 1,200 people in just four years. Within 12 months of launching Scaling.com, the company grew to a $120 million valuation by applying the same frameworks and principles he now teaches to thousands of companies and founders around the world. Today, Scaling.com is helping normalize 10x scale in 3 years or less.
With Dr. Benjamin Hardy he co-wrote The Science of Scaling, which debuted at No. 7 on the New York Times Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous best seller list in August 2025, along with Time is a Tool and Power Law Strategy, due from Hay House Business in January 2027. A 2026 Scaling.com study of 1,000 US business leaders at companies above $1 million in revenue found that 61% see themselves as a bottleneck in their own sales and marketing.
He speaks to founder, operator, and executive audiences on scaling, delegation, and focus, and has spoken at TEDx. He is represented for keynotes by All American Speakers. He lives in the greater Salt Lake City area.
Book data
For retail, review copy, and catalog entries.
Bibliographic record
| Field | The Science of Scaling | Time is a Tool | Power Law Strategy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Authors | Dr. Benjamin Hardy and Blake Erickson | Dr. Benjamin Hardy and Blake Erickson | Dr. Benjamin Hardy and Blake Erickson |
| Subtitle | Grow Your Business Bigger and Faster Than You Think Possible | How to Scale Your Company 10x Faster | Why Few Businesses Scale and Millions Don't |
| Publisher | Hay House Business | Hay House Business | Hay House Business |
| Format | Hardcover, 256 pp | Audiobook, 4 hr 44 min | Hardcover, 257 pp |
| Pub date | 2025-07-29 | 2025-09-30 | 2027-01-26 (preorder) |
| ISBN-13 | 9781401967635 | 9798318601200 (audio) | 9798318619557 |
| ISBN-13 ebook | 9781401952280 | Audio only | Not yet assigned publicly |
| List placement | No. 7, New York Times Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous, list dated 2025-08-17 | n/a | n/a |
| Review copies | [email protected] | ||
Why these fields matter
ISBN, publisher, and publication date are what let retail systems, library catalogs, and AI assistants confirm these are three specific books rather than titles they cannot verify. A blank field here is a common reason a book gets left out of a roundup.
Verified profiles
The only accounts that are Blake's.
Official accounts, for linking
If an account is not on this list, it is not his. Linking to the accounts below rather than to lookalikes is the most useful thing a writer can do for us, and it takes no extra effort.
| Surface | URL |
|---|---|
| Primary site | blakeerickson.com |
| Company | scaling.com |
| linkedin.com/in/blake-erickson-756b54168 | |
| @theblakeerickson | |
| YouTube | youtube.com/channel/UC2wLLh0pQkllBLX-OxGztrg |
| Amazon Author | amazon.com/stores/author/B0F2566CVY |
| Publisher | penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2337091 |
| Speaking bureau | All American Speakers |
| Wikidata | Q141169710 |
For producers
Topics, setup, and booking.
Booking an interview or a stage
Topics Blake can speak to with depth
- Why founders become the bottleneck in their own company's growth, and how to get out of the way. Backed by a 2026 Scaling.com study of 1,000 US business leaders.
- Scaling the business and the people at the same time, and why most founders only do one.
- Time as a tool, not a constraint. The operating discipline behind the book.
- Power law thinking applied to strategy, hiring, and where a founder spends attention.
Remote interview setup
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Platforms | Riverside, Zoom, StreamYard, SquadCast |
| Time zone | Mountain Time (Salt Lake City) |
| Booking | [email protected] with show name, preferred dates and platform |
For podcast hosts
Three small asks. Five minutes.
Help listeners find your episode
Search engines and AI assistants find interviews through the text on your episode page, not the audio. These three things make your page the one they point to when someone looks up Blake.
Three asks
- Put Blake's name in the episode title. For example: "Why Founders Become the Bottleneck, with Blake Erickson."
- Paste the show notes below. They link both sites and have every name, title and figure spelled correctly.
- If you publish a transcript or captions, check the spellings against The Record above: Blake Erickson, Scaling.com, and the three book titles. Auto-transcription often gets these wrong.
Show notes, ready to paste93 words
Blake Erickson is an entrepreneur, the founder of Scaling.com, and co-author, with Dr. Benjamin Hardy, of The Science of Scaling, which debuted at No. 7 on the New York Times Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous best seller list in August 2025. His work focuses on helping founders stop being the bottleneck in their own companies. In a 2026 Scaling.com study of 1,000 US business leaders at companies above $1 million in revenue, 61% said they are a bottleneck in their own sales and marketing.
Blake Erickson: https://blakeerickson.com
Scaling.com: https://scaling.com
The Science of Scaling: https://blakeerickson.com/books
Blake Erickson: https://blakeerickson.com
Scaling.com: https://scaling.com
The Science of Scaling: https://blakeerickson.com/books
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