Marc Baumann

Marc Baumann

I'm an AI-native growth, GTM and product marketing leader. For 12+ years, I've helped build markets for technical B2B platforms. I founded Fiftyone and grew its executive audience to 100,000+, helping companies like CoinDesk, Avalanche, NEAR AI, and Boston Consulting Group go to market; before that, I was CGO at Dfns and CMO at Bitcoin Suisse, helping scale the company to one of the most successful European fintech companies.

I publish 51 Insights, host the 51 podcast, and keep a list of books.

Thoughts and writing

I write about digital assets, AI, markets, and company building. My work reaches 100,000+ decision-makers and includes 800+ published pieces.

Publications

Interviews

Conversations with leaders across finance, technology, policy, and culture for the 51 podcast.

Podcast appearances as a guest

Career

51

Founder & CEO · 2022–present · Miami

Market intelligence and research platform serving 100K+ executives and institutions navigating digital assets and AI.

Dfns

Chief Growth Officer · Jan–May 2026 · Miami

Built marketing, go-to-market, and RevOps from scratch, AI-enabled the organization, and set the commercial foundation for scale.

Bitcoin Suisse

CMO & Strategic Projects · 2018–2022 · Zug

Built brand, marketing, communications, and growth from zero, led a cross-disciplinary team through 15× scale, ran 20+ launches, and shaped the $45M Series A.

2012–2017 · Singapore, Munich, Zürich & London

Interbrand, Accenture Strategy, UBS, Morgan Stanley, and Credit Suisse.

Education and service

Member of the New York State Assembly Ways & Means Committee's Advisory Committee on Cryptocurrency & Digital Finance.

Projects I’m working on

Fiftyone

Institutional intelligence across 2,000+ companies, combining 700,000+ verified data points, research, proprietary scoring, and direct market intelligence.

51 Insights

Fiftyone's research and distribution engine, making finance, blockchain, and AI useful to 100,000+ decision-makers.

FundMoves

AI-native investment research that turns SEC filings into point-in-time intelligence, signals, workflows, and alerts.

AI Operator

Notes on running a company with agent teams, models, APIs, and AI workflows. Updated less often than intended.

Skilltree

A system of record to author, review, version, and distribute reusable skills across AI agents.

Things I’m interested in

Human endurance & longevity

Ultra-endurance experiences that redraw what feels possible, while staying healthy and rejuvenated.

Programmable money

What changes when money moves at software speed and software can spend it?

Company building & innovation

How do strategy, product, growth, and narrative reinforce one another to create unique business models and products?

Media and content

How do we turn complex ideas into media that earns attention when information is abundant and attention is scarce?

AI-native organizations

How do we build reliable AI automations and agent systems—and redesign organizations around human judgment and machine execution?

Architecture and design

Tadao Ando, the Bauhaus, and how restraint shapes space and experience.

Economic growth and the limits of growth

What drives prosperity—and where environmental, resource, and social limits bind.

Outside work, I run and climb: 2:50 marathon, Ironman finisher, and 20 Alpine 4,000-meter peaks. I also DJ and once opened for Bedouin.