Seth Goldstein, since 1995
Thirty years of starting companies and building relationships at the dawn of each new medium.
I brought the web to advertisers in 1995, internet data to investment funds in 2002 and live generative art to collectors in 2021.
Written about in
- The Wall Street Journal
- The New York Times
- BusinessWeek
- Billboard
- The Information
- Télérama
- Observer
The record
Six companies since 1995, and what came before
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Early 1990s
Theater and media art
Cast by Robert Wilson at fourteen. In the early 1990s I made interactive archives of Wilson's work and William Forsythe's choreography, and was an artist-in-residence at ZKM in Karlsruhe.
- Presented the Robert Wilson archive at Mediale, Hamburg, and the Frankfurt Book Fair, 1993
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1995 to 1997
Acquired by CKS Group, 1997
SiteSpecific Founder
One of the first web advertising agencies.
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2000
Flatiron Partners First Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Convened the firm's Pervasive Computing conference for its portfolio companies, analysts and press, and organized the Pervasive Pavilion at Esther Dyson's PC Forum.
With Fred Wilson
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2002 to 2010
200+ funds, $40M+ in sales. Acquired by ITG
Majestic Research Co-founder
Internet data turned into research for investment funds: one of the first alternative-data firms.
- Increasingly, Stock Research Serves the Pros, Not 'Little Guy', The Wall Street Journal, September 2005
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2005 to 2006
Root Markets and AttentionTrust
An online exchange for sales leads, and AttentionTrust, a nonprofit I founded in 2006 for people's rights to their own data.
- If I Had a Nickel for Every Click, BusinessWeek, June 2006
- Talk on the attention economy, O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, 2006
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2011 to 2013
Turntable.fm Co-founder
Online rooms where people took turns as DJ.
With Billy Chasen
- Spotify Is Great, but Turntable.fm Is Amazing, The New York Times, July 2011
- Interview, Billboard, September 2011; TechCrunch Disrupt and SXSW with Billy Chasen
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2021 to 2024
Bright Moments Founder
Live generative-art events in ten cities. Collectors came at a set time, the artist was in the room, and each work was generated and revealed in front of them. About 150 artists, including Tyler Hobbs, Casey Reas, Emily Xie and Claire Silver, ending in Venice in 2024 with one work drawn from the algorithms of sixty of them.
- Minting Takes Manhattan, The Information, December 2021
- Partnership with Art Blocks, CoinDesk, February 2023
Venice to Venice: How Digital Outsiders Crashed the Art World. The Bright Moments documentary, 69 minutes, 2026.
2025 to now
The latest chapter: building with AI agents
Since August 2025 I write the code myself, with Claude Code, for the first time in thirty years.
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Vibeconferencing, with Stan James
Your own Claude Code session joins a Google Meet as a participant and builds what people discuss before the call ends.
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SOLIENNE, with Kristi Coronado
An AI artist shown at Paris Photo, in a solo show in Paris, and at Fotografiska Stockholm. Kristi trained her and has the final say; I build and run the systems underneath.
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Proof of Corn
Fred Wilson asked whether an AI agent could grow a real crop. I built it in public; the idea alone was the #1 story on Hacker News.
Also now: co-founder of Automata, a gallery for digital and autonomous art, and artist relations at NODE, a nonprofit home for digital art in Palo Alto.
Working together