For the record · every clipping is real
The clippingsand the press kit
For press, podcast hosts, and anyone doing their homework. Every link goes to the real thing.
The clippings
Framed honestly
The coverage that names me, the conversations where I do the talking, and the local papers that follow the ghost tours around Arizona.
Named in print
- Press · Arizona Daily Sun20 Under 40: Nick JonesFlagstaff's paper of record named me to its 20 Under 40, as co-founder of Freaky Foot Tours and founder of Eat Sleep Launch Repeat. Fair warning: it sits behind their paywall.
Conversations
- Podcast · Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur, Ep. 839"Business + Consciousness... And Everything In Between"My first podcast: the support@uber.com story, the launch years, and why the inner work and the systems work are the same work. Good if you want the voice behind the coat.
- Spotlight · MylanceMember Spotlight: Nick JonesA short profile on running a portfolio of businesses on systems instead of hours, and building companies where no one person is the linchpin.
The ghost tours in the papers
These pieces cover Freaky Foot Tours, the company I co-founded with my mother, historian Susan Johnson, more than they cover me. I claim them anyway. So would you. The full clipping file is on the company's own press page.
- Press · Arizona Daily Star, Tucson.comFlagstaff's Freaky Foot Tours just expanded their historical ghost tours to TucsonOn bringing our haunted history walk to downtown Tucson.
- Press · Inside Tucson BusinessMoved by the Spirits: New ghost tour company comes to TucsonTucson business press on the expansion, and on the mother and son team behind it.
- Press · Arizona Daily SunExpanding their spookiness: Freaky Foot Tours offers up new tour of city's SouthsideOn our Southside tour through Flagstaff's historic neighborhoods.
- Press · Jack Central, NAUFreaky Foot Tours' haunted FlagstaffNorthern Arizona University's paper on the company my mother and I built, and why I like working in the background.
The press kit
Lift what you need
One bio you are welcome to lift word for word, a short stack of facts, and a short form that lands with a human.
A bio you can lift
Nick Jones, also known as Nick Danger Jones, is an entrepreneur and operator in Flagstaff, Arizona, the world's first International Dark Sky City. He launched markets for Uber, Lime, and Sealed, then founded Eat Sleep Launch Repeat, an operating partner that grows small businesses and startups by developing their digital, physical, and human infrastructure; he is its Founder and Operating Partner. In 2015 he co-founded Freaky Foot Tours, haunted history walking tours in Flagstaff, Prescott, and Tucson, with his mother, historian Susan Johnson. He helps people turn ideas and dreams into real businesses, then builds the infrastructure, the right systems and the right people, that lets them grow.
Take it whole or trim it to fit. The long version, Arizona State Senate research to the five page email to support@uber.com to home at 7,000 ft, lives on the Story page.
Short stack of facts
- Based in Flagstaff, Arizona, the world's first International Dark Sky City.
- Volunteers with the Black Rock Rangers at Burning Man. Rangers help people, they do not police them.
- Board of directors, Care About Climate youth nonprofit, 2014 to 2020, including chair.
- Openly ADHD and dyslexic.
- B.A. History with a Hydrology minor, University of Arizona, with Honors. Study abroad: Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica (Spanish).
Quotes · fact checks · interviews
The form lands with a human. I read it and I reply myself.
Not writing a story, just want to build something? Collaborate is the page you want.