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Ryan Yockey
Founder, Executive Coach & LinkedIn Creator
Five companies founded, multiple exits, businesses worth over a billion dollars — then he walked away at the peak and grew from 1,200 to 145,000 LinkedIn followers in 16 months.
ABOUT
Ryan Yockey grew up in a military family, taught himself to code at 15, and launched his first web development firm in 1996 at 16. Over three decades he founded five companies, had multiple exits, and helped build businesses worth over a billion dollars across edtech, health sciences, wearables, and pet nutrition — rising from IC to director inside a year wherever he landed. With no burnout and no blowup, he quietly walked away from the corporate path, went on a desert retreat at the Modern Elder Academy, and rebuilt as a coach for entrepreneurs and senior operators feeling the same quiet pull. He grew his LinkedIn from 1,200 to 145,000 followers in 16 months by engineering hooks like the software problem they are — and coined a future with Ahmad on this episode: the 'boomerpreneur'. In episode 095 of Return on Identity he joins Ahmad Ashrafi.
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