Falon Fatemi is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and mom reshaping how culture is created—and monetized. As CEO & co-founder of Fireside (co-founded with Mark Cuban) she is pioneering the Community Economy, giving select creators and brands full ownership of audience, data, and upside. Fireside’s interactive streaming-plus-commerce stack (mobile, web, smart TV) lets fewer than a dozen invite-only partners each year launch branded hubs where fans join the show, subscribe, shop, and steer the conversation in real time.

Previously, Falon was the single founder of Node, one of the rare female-led deep-tech companies. In her twenties her company employed the top AI talent and leveraged large-language models and deep learning—years before ChatGPT—to drop predictive intelligence into any app with a simple API. Node was acquired by Salesforce competitor, SugarCRM in 2020, the same year Fortune named her to 40 Under 40 in Technology.

Through Golden Gun Ventures (GGV) she now invests in and advises visionary creators and companies, helping turn creativity into revenue.

At 19, Falon became Google’s youngest employee, spending a decade scaling go-to-market strategy and partnerships across Google and YouTube including supporting the launch of YouTube Live. She writes a regular column for Forbes on AI, the creator economy, and the future of media, and her bylines appear in Wired, Fast Company, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, and more. Honors include Fast Company 100 Most Creative People, Goldman Sachs 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs, Inc. Top 100 Women, and Marie Claire’s New Guard deeming her ‘The Rainmaker’ as one of the “top 50 female visionaries changing the world we live in.”

Her recent health transformation—and passion for clean living inspired by motherhood—now fuels much of her writing and investing focus on wellness, tech, and modern family life.