Ben Arnon
I work across tech, entrepreneurship, film and television, writing, photography, and agentic AI design — and the work that breaks through happens where they collide.
Entrepreneur and producer. I helped scale tech startup, Wildfire, from 6 to 400+ people before its acquisition by Google, and I've held creative and business roles at Universal Pictures, Universal Music Group, Jersey Films, Yahoo! Music, and Scott Rudin Productions. Today I make film and television with Color Farm Media, build and deploy leadership curricula with Color Farm Impact, and spend much of my time designing and building agentic AI systems.
Agentic AI
Designing and building agentic systems
I'm a twin. I also have a digital twin: a folder of documents that knows how I work, that any AI tool can open, and that agents run against while I sleep. It reads every meeting transcript and files what matters, drafts my follow-ups, builds and ships software, and checks its own work. I supervise a system; I don't operate a chatbot. I've gone from prototypes to production-ready products as a non-coder, and I find it incredibly energizing.
See the digital twin explainer →Film & TV
Color Farm Media
Where culture meets capital. Color Farm Media develops and produces film, television, audio and live experiences that put underrepresented voices at the center of the frame.
John Lewis: Good Trouble
CNN Films / Participant / Magnolia Pictures · 3 Emmy nominations · NAACP Image Award
Finding Tamika
Audible, with Kevin Hart · duPont-Columbia Award · Webby Award
The Big Payback
PBS Independent Lens · HBCU Debate Series across 15 campuses
ReLiving Single
Spotify Top 5 Podcasts of the Year · Ambie, NAACP Image and Webby nominee
Concrete Park
Dark Horse graphic novels by Tony Puryear and Erika Alexander
In development: The Hidden Diary of Diahann Carroll · Rise and Shine: Boys Choir of Harlem · ORCA feature documentary film.
Impact
Color Farm Impact
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit cultural systems lab: building technology, creating and amplifying stories through media, harnessing data and research, and developing leadership and education curricula. Home of the Maxine Shaw Effect leadership curriculum and The Dharma Project.
Technology & business
Where I've worked
- 2025–2026
Zapier — Large Enterprise AI Orchestration Sales
Brought AI orchestration and workflow automation to large enterprises — the work that pulled me fully into agentic systems.
- 2020–2024
Curio — Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Digital collectibles with Universal Music, Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures, Sony Music, Fremantle, Topps, Dick Wolf, Rock The Bells.
- 2017–present
Color Farm Media — Co-Founder & CEO
Film, TV, audio and live experiences. Where culture meets capital.
- 2012–2016
Google, New York — Head of Industry
Sales leadership after the Wildfire acquisition.
- 2010–2012
Wildfire — VP, Global Brand & Agency Partnerships
Sixth employee. Scaled from 6 to 400+ people; acquired by Google.
- 2009
Blue State Digital — Director of Business Development
- 2006–2008
Yahoo! Media — Head of Business Development & Product Strategy
Yahoo! Music and Yahoo! Movies.
- earlier
Universal Pictures · Universal Music Group · Jersey Films · Scott Rudin Productions — Creative and business roles
Techstars mentor (New York and Los Angeles). Angel investor and advisor. Board Member, The Moth. MBA, UCLA Anderson School of Management; BA, Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Emory University, magna cum laude.
Photography
Documentary, editorial, travel
A visual journalist's eye for socio-economic, class and racial themes. Exhibited in New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Providence in 2016–2017.
- —RIO — solo exhibition, Chelsea Market, New York (2016)
- —Never Sweat, Wyoming + Afropunk — Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, presented by Atlanta Photography Group (2016)
- —Honorable Mention, Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York annual juried competition — Cuba (2016)
- —Photoville, Brooklyn Bridge Park — Willets Point (2016)
- —Featured in Rangefinder Magazine (2017)
Writing
A decade at HuffPost, and The Multiplier
Contributing writer and photographer at HuffPost from 2008 to 2018 — social commentary on visual arts, culture, society, digital media and politics. At Emory University, a senior thesis on the history of the U.S. recorded music industry's market segmentation along racial lines.
The Multiplier is where I write now: essays on interdisciplinary thinking, AI, and the shift from prompting to building — vibe coding and its production reality check, context engineering, orchestrating intelligence at scale, and why interdisciplinary thinkers are the ones the job market wants.