melanie ehrenkranz
Melanie is a creative strategist and writer at the crossroads of tech, power, and community, helping entrepreneurs build things that matter — and are cool as hell. She’s a Community Manager at Mercury, where she leads and engages with communities that matter to founders and builders.
Before Mercury, Melanie ran content and community for Sophia Amoruso’s Business Class, a membership-based entrepreneurship community and course for founders, freelancers, solopreneurs, creators, and side hustlers. She’s also consulted on creative campaigns for early-stage startups, bringing big ideas to life with lean, scrappy teams.
She has written for places like Gizmodo, Medium, Mozilla, The Outline, Vice, Mic, NBC News, National Geographic, SHAPE, Killscreen, INVERSE, and San Diego Citybeat. She’s built newsletters from the ground up, grown audiences into the tens of thousands, and knows how to make people care enough to stick around.
In 2024, she founded Laid Off, the coolest place on the internet to talk about being laid off. It’s been featured in The New York Times, CNBC, Slate, Business Insider, and Popsugar. Laid Off is a Substack bestseller.
Melanie is based in Los Angeles.
