Occupation Marketer, Entrepreneur Books Putting My Foot Down | Notable works "Putting My Foot Down" | |
Alma mater Florida State University
Columbia University Education Columbia University, Florida State University | ||
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Brent Underwood is an American marketer and entrepreneur. He is a partner at the creative advisory firm Brass Check and founder of the hostel HK Austin.
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Career
After graduating from Columbia University, Underwood worked briefly for an investment bank in New York City. After one month, he quit and backpacked across Central and South America. Upon returning to New York, he founded a hostel in Brooklyn. In December 2014 Underwood founded HK Austin, a hostel in Austin, Texas, with investors including Matthew Kepnes, after staying in 150 hostels across 30 countries. For 2015, HK Austin was the highest rated hostel in the United States.
Underwood later worked for authors Tucker Max and Ryan Holiday, and with Holiday, Jimmy Soni and Nils Parker, became a partner in the creative advisory company Brass Check, where he worked with clients including Tony Robbins, John Grisham, Robert Greene, Tim Ferriss, Zeds Dead, Illangelo, and Young & Sick. Underwood has written for Forbes, the New York Observer, Thrillist, Thought Catalog, and Huffington Post.
Putting My Foot Down
In February 2016, Underwood published a photo of his foot on Amazon as a book titled Putting My Foot Down. The purpose of the book was to show how few sales it took to become a "#1 Best Seller" on Amazon. The resulting article in the New York Observer received attention from a variety of media outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and from authors including Neil Gaiman and Nick Bilton. Shortly after publication, Amazon removed the book citing quality issues. Underwood was then offered a publishing contract from Thought Catalog to turn Putting My Foot Down into an expanded paperback version. The paperback version received attention from Australia's breakfast television show Sunrise, VICE, Adweek, Business Insider, The Daily Dot, the Toronto Star, and others. Amazon later said they were changing their algorithm because of the stunt.
The Toronto Star recreated Underwood's stunt with their own fake book, which also reached #1 on Amazon's Best Seller list.