Adam Zuckerman
Curious by nature. Connector by instinct. Builder by choice.
I’m an entrepreneur, author, attorney, and Eisenhower Fellow.
I’ve worked in technology and media, built entrepreneurial communities, run corporate innovation, sold small modular nuclear reactors internationally, gone on television to explain technology, written a book, made two card games, and built companies around a problem most people would rather not think about.
The subjects change. What I do with them hasn’t. I learn the landscape, find the people who know things I don’t, connect dots that don’t obviously connect, and build something useful.
I probably know someone
People have been saying this about me for years. I’m the person who knows the person.
Partly that’s having worked in a lot of unrelated worlds. Mostly it’s that I’m curious about people. I like meeting someone who knows things I don’t, hearing what they’re working on, and figuring out who else they ought to meet.
Making an introduction is easy. Noticing that two people should know each other is the interesting part.
Now
- 2023
- Buried in Work Helping families prepare for, organize, and get through the practical side of death. An education platform, a product company, a podcast, and a book.
- 2025
- Heirloom & Tell A private place to record a parent's, grandparent's, or family's life while you can still ask them. The stories, the recipes, the photographs, the history behind the objects nobody can identify afterwards.
- 501(c)(3)
- Buried in Work Charitable Free public education on estate planning, end-of-life preparation, and what comes next. It underwrites End of Life Careers and RetURN.org.
- Wiley
- No Loose Ends Everything that has to happen when someone dies, and everything you can do in advance to make it survivable. Winner of the 2026 NYC Big Book Award and a Gold Medal in the Living Now Book Awards.