Evan Burns Email Address

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Odyssey's social content platform crowdsources viewpoints from millennial thought leaders embedded in their local communities, surfacing a rich and otherwise untapped diversity of stories and real conversations to share on a worldwide scale with an audience hungry for a variety of perspectives. The platform empowers its thousands of writers to contribute what matters to them, and enables content to find its most relevant audience through organic social sharing. All Odyssey content undergoes a rigorous editorial process, leveraging the power of its proprietary MUSE technology combined with its editorial team. Odyssey, which launched online in 2014, is growing explosively with a highly engaged millennial and Gen Z audience. Based in New York and Indianapolis, Odyssey has a presence in over 350 communities nationwide, growing to 600 communities by year end.

We believe the traditional content creation model -- based on top-down decision making and singular points of view - is broken. It leads to a handful of viewpoints from a handful of minds. We saw the opportunity to leverage technology to flip that model upside-down, and create a way to gather ideas from the ground level, tapping into the thought leaders in communities around the country to share their ideas and perspectives for their peers. We are building Odyssey because we believe there is a need for content and news from multiple diverse perspectives and that brings new ideas to the forefront of conversation in communities around the country and world. https://www.theodysseyonline.com/about