Who we are

Glenn O. Brown started GOB Advisory in 2021, drawing on his experience with scale-stage consumer tech companies and global nonprofits in culture, media, and technology.

As suits each client, GOB Advisory may tap in subject-matter experts from a broad network — designers, media producers, comms specialists — and, some cases, provide legal referrals.

Prior to founding GOB Advisory, Glenn was the Chief Digital Officer at the Obama Foundation, where he built and managed the Obama Foundation's communications, marketing, brand, and consumer technology teams in support of the future Obama Presidential Center in Chicago and leadership training programs worldwide. Glenn spent four years at Twitter, where he co-founded Twitter Amplify, the company's premium video product and sponsorship marketplace. Glenn built Amplify from concept, in 2012, into a global business line with over 200 major sports leagues and broadcasters worldwide by 2015. Prior to Twitter, Glenn spent four years at YouTube as U.S. Head of Music Partnerships, where he negotiated industry-first revenue-share deals with all major and independent music labels and publishers, helped form the video joint venture VEVO as well as YouTube’s first series of live-streamed concerts, and helped design the business and legal rules for YouTube's ContentID system. In 2006, Glenn worked on Google's acquisition of YouTube and became its in-house Product Counsel. From 2002 to 2005, Glenn co-founded and was the first full-time CEO of Creative Commons, the open-access copyright nonprofit incubated at Stanford Law School, where he oversaw the launch of the first (cc) licenses and coined the phrase “Some Rights Reserved.”

Glenn is on the board of Creative Commons (Vice Chair) and The Texas Tribune, and has served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Betaworks and a lecturer at Stanford Law School. Glenn graduated from Harvard Law School in 2000 (magna cum laude, Harvard Law Review) and the University of Texas in 1996 (summa cum laude, Plan II humanities honors program). He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, son, and daughter.