Bonin Bough
Board Director, Philip Morris International | Co-Founder, Group Black Holdings | Marketing Innovator Behind Oreo, PepsiCo & Mondelēz | Advertising Hall of Achievement
Manu ‘Swish’ Goswami
Head of Growth, Parallel Studios ($100M Raised) | Co-Founder, Surf (Acq. by Datacy) | Bestselling Author, The Young Entrepreneur | 4x TEDx Speaker | Angel Investor & Chairman, League of Innovators
Swish Goswami has built and sold multiple companies before 30, raised $8M for Surf (acquired by Datacy in 2024), and now drives growth at Parallel Studios, a $100M-backed gaming studio. A bestselling author, four-time TEDx speaker, and co-host of the Track Limits F1 podcast, his keynotes give audiences a raw, practical view of how the next generation builds businesses, brands, and communities that last.
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Manu ‘Swish’ Goswami biography
Swish Goswami is one of the most accomplished young entrepreneurs of his generation — a serial founder, bestselling author, angel investor, and executive who has built, scaled, and exited companies before the age of 30. Known for combining genuine business acumen with an instinctive grasp of emerging technology, culture, and consumer behavior, he has spent a decade proving that insight, not age, is what separates the builders who matter from those who only talk about building.
Entrepreneurship speaker Swish Goswami first gained widespread attention as the co-founder and CEO of Trufan, a social intelligence platform that helped celebrities and brands — including NBA athletes and major entertainment groups — connect with their most loyal fans. He later co-founded Surf, a browser extension that rewarded users for their everyday browsing data while giving brands high-fidelity consumer insights. Surf grew to over 300,000 users, raised $8M from NBA players, unicorn founders, and venture firms, made two acquisitions, and was ultimately acquired by Datacy in 2024. He currently serves as Head of Growth & Marketing at Parallel Studios, a venture-backed gaming company building the next major science fiction franchise, which has raised approximately $100 million from investors including Coatue, the former CEO of AngelList, and the co-founder of YouTube.
Beyond his operating roles, Swish manages AGEX, his personal angel fund with investments in more than 20 early-stage companies. He serves on the Next Gen Council at Covenant House and is Chairman of the League of Innovators — a Canadian charity dedicated to accelerating youth entrepreneurship, backed by a $20 million fund for Canadians under 30. He is the bestselling author of The Young Entrepreneur (Kogan Page), a practical guide encouraging students to build businesses while in school, and has delivered four TEDx talks, been featured in Forbes, TechCrunch, Adweek, Business Insider, and the Globe and Mail, and spoken at stages including the United Nations, Harvard University, the World Business Dialogue, the Wall Street Journal, and events alongside Richard Branson and Gary Vaynerchuk.
Track Limits and the Emerging Media Playbook
In addition to his operational and investment work, Swish co-hosts Track Limits, a Formula 1 podcast with a reach of over six million listeners built around inspiring stories from the world’s most demanding motorsport. The show is a window into his broader philosophy: that the best brands and entrepreneurs of the next decade will be the ones who master the intersection of storytelling, community, and emerging platforms — not those who simply advertise on them.
As a speaker, Swish Goswami delivers something organizations increasingly need: a first-hand, up-to-the-minute perspective on how the next generation actually thinks, spends, creates, and builds loyalty. His sessions draw on real experience — founding companies, raising capital, navigating acquisitions, building communities — and translate that experience into practical frameworks that resonate with audiences from corporate leadership teams to university students. For organizations that want to understand Gen Z not as a demographic to be decoded but as a force actively reshaping business, Swish is an exceptional choice available through Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Manu ‘Swish’ Goswami Speaking Videos
Swish Goswami - Storytelling in the Modern World
Swish Goswami - The Golden Age of Social Entrepreneurship
Manu ‘Swish’ Goswami Keynote Topics
In a world where everyone has a platform but few have a genuine presence, personal brand is the asset that compounds. Drawing on his own journey from teenage entrepreneur to bestselling author and venture-backed executive, Swish breaks down what it actually takes to build a personal brand that creates real opportunities — on LinkedIn and beyond. He covers the do's and don'ts of social storytelling, how to find and own a distinctive voice, why authenticity beats polish every time, and how the habits of self-promotion he developed early became the foundation of every company he built. Practical, direct, and immediately applicable for anyone who wants their name to mean something.
In this session, Swish will teach you how to cultivate your personal brand which you have whether you want it or not. By sharing the do’s and don’ts behind engaging and effective social storytelling on various platforms including his favorite platform LinkedIn, Swish will help you build an entrepreneurial mindset, while perfecting social storytelling and selling yourself.
Gen Z is not a mystery to be decoded — they are a generation that has been building, investing, and reshaping consumer expectations in plain sight. In this keynote, Swish — who is Gen Z, has built companies for Gen Z, and has spent a decade studying how they engage with brands, technology, and institutions — gives senior audiences an insider's view of what this generation actually values and how they actually behave. He covers their relationship with authenticity, social proof, data, community, and entrepreneurship, and translates those insights into concrete implications for marketing, talent, and product strategy.
What does it actually take to build a venture-backed tech company from a dorm room to an acquisition? In this keynote, Swish walks through the unvarnished story of founding Surf — from the original insight about data sovereignty and consumer compensation, through the fundraise, the product build, the 300,000 users, the two acquisitions, and the eventual sale to Datacy in 2024. He extracts the lessons that generalize beyond his own story: how to find a problem worth solving, how to raise your first capital, how to build a community around a product, how to know when to push and when to pivot, and what founders almost never tell you about what an exit actually feels like.
Built on frameworks Swish has refined through years of speaking at universities, accelerators, and corporate events worldwide, this high-energy session gives audiences a practical toolkit for entrepreneurial growth grounded in five core principles: persistence, personal branding, patience, purpose, and passion. Unlike motivational talks that leave audiences inspired but empty-handed, this session pairs each principle with specific tactics, real failure stories, and honest advice from someone who has started six ventures across four industries — and learned something essential from each one.
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FAQs on Booking Manu ‘Swish’ Goswami
Why Swish Goswami?
Booking Swish Goswami for your event means bringing one of the most credible and energetic young business voices in North America to your audience. Swish doesn't speak from theory — he has founded multiple companies, raised millions in venture capital, navigated a successful acquisition, built a community of 300,000+ users, invested in 20+ startups through his angel fund, and co-hosts a podcast reaching over six million listeners. He is a bestselling author, a four-time TEDx speaker, and the Chairman of a $20 million fund for young Canadian entrepreneurs. Whether your audience is senior executives who need to understand the next generation of consumers and builders, or young professionals who need inspiration and tactics, Swish delivers both with authenticity and precision. To book Swish Goswami for your event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
What is Swish Goswami's book about?
The Young Entrepreneur, published by Kogan Page, is a bestselling practical guide aimed at students and young people who want to start a business before — or instead of — following a conventional career path. Drawing on Swish's own experience founding companies while at university, it covers how to identify opportunities, validate ideas, build a first product, attract early customers, and develop the entrepreneurial mindset required to push through setbacks. It is used in schools and universities across Canada and beyond as a resource for introducing entrepreneurship to a new generation.
What is the League of Innovators?
The League of Innovators is a Canadian charity dedicated to accelerating youth entrepreneurship across the country. Swish Goswami serves as its Chairman. The organization is backed by a $20 million fund specifically for Canadians under the age of 30, and supports young founders with mentorship, programming, and access to capital. It is one of several social impact commitments that run alongside Swish's commercial career — reflecting his conviction that entrepreneurship education and access are among the most powerful tools available for social mobility.
What topics does entrepreneur speaker Swish Goswami cover?
Swish Goswami's keynotes span the full range of entrepreneurship, Gen Z culture, and emerging technology: building and growing startups from zero to acquisition; the Gen Z mindset and how they are reshaping consumer behavior, loyalty, and brand relationships; personal branding and storytelling in the digital age; fundraising, angel investing, and the venture ecosystem; the future of data, privacy, and the creator economy; leadership and resilience for young entrepreneurs; and practical lessons from founding, scaling, and exiting companies. His sessions are high-energy, story-driven, and directly actionable — tailored to audiences from corporate leadership to university campuses. To discuss the right format and topic for your event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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