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Corporate Bro is a social media character and personality created Ross Pomerantz in 2014.
Background
[edit]Ross Pomerantz was born (March 24, 1989) in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2001 his family moved to the San Francisco Bay. Ross went to Marin Academy high school in San Rafael, graduating in 2007. After high school Ross attended Occidental College in Los Angeles where he majored in Psychology and was a captain/pitcher on the baseball team. Upon graduation, Ross signed with an independant minor league baseball team called the San Rafael Pacifics where he played for two seasons. Since then Ross has worked in sales at several large companies including Oracle Corporation and Glassdoor. In early 2018, Ross joined NeuroTrainer as a cofounder where he still currently works while also getting his MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Social Media Career
[edit]Pomerantz began his career on Vine in 2014, when he started making comedy videos for his coworkers at Oracle. He called the channel Corporate Bro and all the content was a satirical take on life in software sales. Once it was announced Vine would cease existence, Pomerantz moved all of his videos (under the Corporate Bro name) to Instagram where things took off. In the last few days of 2015, an article written by Post Grad Problems, a subset of Grandex Media, jumped his following to over ten-thousand followers. Since then Pomerantz and his team have tried produce one video per week.
TEAM
[edit]The team began coming together at the end of 2015 beginning with Ross's brother Robert "Win" Pomerantz who also plays Corporate Bro's manager in the videos. Joining at the same time was Ross's coworker from Oracle, Matt Macdonald, who plays fellow sales rep, "Matthew Kiefer." In 2017 the team added Ben Gould, a sales rep from Zenefits who plays "Ben" in the videos and substantially contributes to the writing of episodes.
Channels
[edit]The @Corporate.Bro Instagram is the largest, most active channel boasting nearly 55-thousand followers. Pomerantz will do AMAs and post newest videos there first. The Corporate Bro Linkedin account is the second most popular channel and hosts an invite-only group for sales professionals. Pomerantz also has Corporate Bro accounts on Facebook and YouTube.