Jon Jacques

Jon Jacques is a professional magician turned entrepreneur, viral expert, influencer, and keynote speaker. From executing 5,000 live presentations, to scaling a $200M company, to inspiring 100M people on social media – Jacques has packed more into just 30 years than most do in a lifetime! Since deciding to create inspirational content in 2015, Jacques has earned a following of 1 Million people worldwide and has been featured by The Ellen DeGeneres Show, BuzzFeed, TechCrunch, Mashable, and more.

For most 6-year-olds, a magic set under the Christmas tree is just another gift, but for Jacques, it changed the trajectory of his life. He fell in love with the art of magic and fed off of the smiles he was able to bring his audience members. Throughout his school years, he turned his passion for magic into a successful entertainment business, performing over 250 shows per year for audiences up to 8,000 people. These performances brought him around the world, allowing Jacques to perform throughout the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean.

After attending college at Babson, perennially ranked #1 for Entrepreneurship by U.S. News & World Report, Jacques was offered an executive position in San Francisco to launch video advertising startup, Virool (acquired). The company raised the largest Seed Round in the history of Y Combinator, clocking in at over $6.6 Million in funding from Menlo Ventures, DFJ, 500 Startups, Troy Carter (Lady Gaga’s former Manager), and other prominent investors. In less than 2 years, Jacques helped scale the company to a $200 Million dollar valuation. He has driven over 1 Billion views for his clients and is the man behind some of the most viral video campaigns in history for Turkish Airlines, Disney, AT&T, Anheuser-Busch, and more.

Although he was living any young entrepreneur’s dream, Jacques had an itch for something more. Jacques quit his job and decided to create viral videos of his own, getting his start on Twitter’s Live Stream App, Periscope, and becoming one of the Top 15 Influencers across the platform. Since expanding to other platforms, Jacques has garnered over 100 Million views and 1 Million followers whose support has opened up once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. He was signed to a video series for The Ellen DeGeneres Show, interviewed Chris Hemsworth on the red carpet, and even toured the country with his childhood idol, Sylvester Stallone.

With Jacques’s extensive knowledge of viral marketing and content creation, he has launched 5 training programs and a social media agency to help business owners go viral and scale their brands. Jacques now travels internationally to speak at some of the biggest conferences including Cannes Lions, Advertising Week, iMedia Summit, ad:tech, and MediaPost Summit. He’s trained over 30,000 people through his online courses and enthralling presentations.