Christopher Lochhead 🇺🇸🇮🇱🏴‍☠️

I'm Pirate Christopher.

I'm a thirteen-time #1 bestselling CoAuthor, #1 charting business dialogue podcaster, co-creator of Category Pirates and is best known as a "godfather" of Category Design.

Our Substack is a top 25 business Substack with over 32K subscribers.

I've been an advisor to over 50 venture-backed startups, is a venture capital limited partner, who is a former three-time Silicon Valley public company CMO (Mercury Interactive, Scient, Vantive).

I was born in Montreal Canada. I am a dyslexic paperboy who got thrown out of school at 18. For me, entrepreneurship was not a way up, but a way out.

The Marketing Journal called me “one of the best minds in marketing”, the late, great NBA Legend Bill Walton called me a “quasar” and The Economist called me, “off putting to some”.

Podcaster Neil Pearlberg called my podcast Follow Your Different, "the worst business podcast" and Podcast Magazine called my podcast Follow Your Different, "the best business podcast".

When I'm not writing, I mostly hang out on the Pirate Ship at Category Pirates, play with my baby dinosaurs in the backyard, my cat Bean that identifies as a dog.

My goal here is to teach, tell long stories even longer and have fun. I'm two thirds silly and one third serious and I've been known to drink too much, so if you really want help, go see my brother from another mother, the Pirate Eddie AI bot.