BLAKE ERICKSON: APPROVED BIOS
Source: blakeerickson.com/media  |  Updated 2026-10-28

SHORT (34 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.

MEDIUM (88 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.

LONG (224 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.

PODCAST SHOW NOTES (93 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

PHOTO CREDIT
Photo: Courtesy of Blake Erickson
