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About · Operator file

I help founders win at organic.

Twelve years writing about — and running — the SEO, growth, and AI-marketing playbook from inside the businesses I own.

$200M+
Revenue influenced
11
Brands at Flux Ventures
28.4k
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Alejandro Rioja
Currently
Chairman, Flux Ventures · Austin, TX
The long version

How I got here.

I started building websites at 13 — the kind of overconfident, badly designed affiliate sites that taught me more about Google than anything I ever read about it later. By the time I graduated from UCLA in 2017, I'd built and sold three of them.

That question turned into Flux Ventures, a holding company I run as Chairman. Inside it: Flux Chargers, Future Sharks, Mentioned, Authority Daily, So Influential, Remarkable, TotalGirlBoss, Absolute Baller, The Insurance Nerd, and Pickleland — a nine-court indoor pickleball facility I opened in Pflugerville.

Across all of it, the same operating system: write the thing first, ship the page that explains it, structure both so the algorithm and now the LLM can cite it back.

Why hire me

You probably shouldn't, if you have an in-house team that ships. If you don't — or if you do but they're stuck — I run six full audits per quarter, plus a small number of strategy calls. I do every one personally. No team of juniors, no white-labeled deliverables.

Case files

Things I'm proud of.

Selected · 2018–2026
01 DTC · e-comm

Flux Chargers: $0 → $100k+/mo in 14 months.

Built the DTC engine on organic + earned media before paying a cent for ads. Featured in Forbes, Business Insider, and 12 affiliate networks.

02 Media · network

A 7-publication media network — built like one P&L.

Future Sharks, Authority Daily, SoInfluential, Remarkable, TotalGirlBoss, Mentioned, Insurance Nerd. Combined: 2M+ monthly readers.

03 Local · Pickleland

Pickleland: #1 SERP in Austin from launch.

Indoor pickleball facility in Pflugerville. Ranked #1 for "indoor pickleball Austin" within 90 days. 87% of leads come from organic + GMB.

04 Reputation

The Insurance Nerd: 240+ verified reviews, all organic.

Niche review site for life and disability insurance. Cited by NerdWallet, Forbes Advisor, and 30+ outlets in the last 18 months.

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