Cory Althoff

I make things people share.

Books. Podcasts. Marketing for brands.

I'm a 2x author and marketer based in Los Angeles. I work with brands through my agency, Hard Stop.

The Work

200,000 books sold in eight languages. A podcast that reached a billion views.

  1. Author of The Self-Taught Programmer and The Self-Taught Computer Scientist. 200,000+ copies sold in 8 languages.
  2. Helped launch The Really Good Podcast, which hit #1 on Apple Podcasts, with 1 billion views on social media.
  3. SVP of Product Marketing at CompTIA, where I 5x'd the revenue of our data science product line. USC Marshall MBA.
Cory Althoff
In My Own Words

I sold 200,000+ copies of my books in eight languages by building an audience from scratch.

I helped launch The Really Good Podcast, which hit #1 on Apple Podcasts and got over a billion views on social media.

I taught 70,000+ students how to code on Udemy.

I'm writing my third book, The Self-Taught Marketer. It comes out later this year.

And I run Hard Stop, a marketing agency.

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I run Hard Stop.

Hard Stop is a marketing agency that makes founder-led content, done for you, so your social media stops reading like a brochure.

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