ian rhett
I help mission-driven teams turn possibility into shipped reality.
Thirty years of firsts: the web's first live music festival (1995), Apple's first streaming music group, a fully remote company in 2004, now aimed at civic infrastructure, conservation, and the leaders building both.
[Ian: recent photo here, not the 2013 about.me image]
Receipts
A record you can check.
1995 MTV News finds me in “Web Central.”
The web's first live, multi-venue music festival.
Read the story 2004–14
Remote CEO before remote was a thing.
CivicActions, fully distributed, through the Great Recession.
Read the story 2026
Building civic infrastructure with agentic tools.
CivicAlerts · CivicFindery · a forest · a foundation.
See what I'm buildingIt doesn't promise the fortune. It promises the meeting.