Press Coverage

Interviews and features in ERR, Postimees, Eesti Päevaleht, Broadway World and Gulfshore Business, plus original research journalists are free to cite.

Selected

Gulfshore Business

Southwest Florida businesses expand use of AI tools in 2025

A regional business magazine feature on AI adoption quotes Valev Laube as Director of AI at Dragon Horse Agency on where AI agents genuinely help: structured analysis and repetitive workflow tasks.

June 1, 2025

Broadway World

Broadway’s Visual Artist Valev Laube Debuts ‘Liminal’ After 15 Years Of Musical Crafting

Coverage of the New Year’s Day 2025 release of Liminal, an eighteen-track debut album of fifteen original compositions and three reimagined Estonian folk tunes drawn from fifteen years of writing.

January 2, 2025

Ärileht

New Yorgi eestlane nomineeriti Forbesi 30 mõjukaima noore sekka

New Yorgis elav disainer ja turundusspetsialist Valev Laube (24) on nomineeritud 2020. aasta Forbesi mainekasse alla 30-aastaste edetabelisse, kuhu seni on pääsenud vaid kolm eestlast.

November 13, 2019

Press

Indie Hackers

Valev Laube Unlocks the Future of Branding Through AI and Storytelling

From teenage designer in Estonia to New York creative strategist: how pairing artistic vision with AI tools helps entrepreneurs build and scale their brands.

July 4, 2025

Gulfshore Business

Southwest Florida businesses expand use of AI tools in 2025

A regional business magazine feature on AI adoption quotes Valev Laube as Director of AI at Dragon Horse Agency on where AI agents genuinely help: structured analysis and repetitive workflow tasks.

June 1, 2025

Broadway World

Petra Jasmiina Unites Nordic & Baltic Artists In NYC With NANY Initiative

Names Valev Laube among the leaders of Nordic Artists of New York, alongside composer Johanna Telander and kanklės player Simona Smirnova, in a new initiative uniting Nordic and Baltic artists in the city.

February 2, 2025

Broadway World

Broadway’s Visual Artist Valev Laube Debuts ‘Liminal’ After 15 Years Of Musical Crafting

Coverage of the New Year’s Day 2025 release of Liminal, an eighteen-track debut album of fifteen original compositions and three reimagined Estonian folk tunes drawn from fifteen years of writing.

January 2, 2025

ShoutOut HTX

Meet Valev Laube | Branding Expert, Multimedia Producer & Marketing Director

A long-form interview tracing the path from Estonian album-cover design to brand work with Kenneth Cole and Steve Madden, the Forbes Under 30 nomination, and Dawn till Dusk becoming an Off-Broadway production.

May 8, 2024

New York Business Journal

Lessons from 12 New York business leaders — What they wish they knew before starting out

A New York Business Journal roundup in which twelve founders and executives name what they wish they had known before starting out. Valev Laube’s contribution argues for building a network of mentors early, well before you think you need one.

May 1, 2024

Conversations

ETV - Välisilm

Välisilm, 25. Hooaeg, 708. Osa - USA valimised

Millise pitseri jätab USA valimistele koroonapandeemia? Millised võimalused on Valgesse Majja pääseda Joe Bidenil või ametis jätkata Donald Trumpil?

November 2, 2020

ERR

Broadway director writes musical about Singing Revolution

Inspired while on a vacation to Tallinn, Broadway director Tony Spinosa has written a musical about Estonia’s Singing Revolution.

August 19, 2019

ERR

ERR USA-s: eestlased aitavad Kalevala-teemalist muusikali Broadwayle tuua

Kaks eestlast aitab Broadway lavale viia muusikali, mis põhineb Soome rahvuseeposel „Kalevala“. Sama tee üritab läbi käia veel teinegi projekt, millel on Eestiga veel suurem seos.

May 12, 2019

ERR

Eesti jälg: USA

Eestit ja Ameerika Ühendriike seob eelkõige NATO ning koostöö julgeoleku tagamisel. Riikide vahel valitsevad head suhted, mida näitas hiljutine presidentide kohtumine Valges Majas. USA on ühtlasi koduks rohkem kui 25 000 eestlasele, kes eesti keelt ja meelt seal läbi aastakümnete alal on hoidnud.

April 30, 2018

Writing

The Northern Voices

The Third Generation Problem

The third generation inherits fragments rather than a culture — and chooses to go back to it, which is a different and arguably harder relationship to a heritage.

September 4, 2026

The Northern Voices

Hingedeaeg, or the Season We Left Behind

An Estonian autumn of weeks given over to the dead — food left out, work set down — and why almost none of it survived the crossing to North America.

September 4, 2026

The Northern Voices

What the Forest Knows That It Cannot Tell You

Mushroom foraging in Estonia as a case study in tacit knowledge — the kind of expertise that cannot be written down and has to be stood next to.

August 14, 2026

The Northern Voices

The Night Came Back, and I Had Forgotten What It Was For

In mid-August the darkness returns to the Baltic as a gift — and on how artificial light has displaced something essential to human and animal biology.

August 14, 2026

The Northern Voices

What a Bee Taught Me About Getting Lost on Purpose

A looping bee in an Estonian garden, the science of insect navigation, and a different way of understanding false starts and paths that only look aimless from the outside.

July 23, 2026

Cybernews

Ashutosh Syngal’s Decentralized Vision for Secure Data in AI

An interview with Midcentury Labs’ VP of Engineering on blockchain-backed, privacy-preserving AI that lets people own and monetize the data they contribute.

March 20, 2025

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Valev Laube

Valev Laube is a creative director, web designer-developer and AI strategist based in New York City and Tallinn. He is Director of AI at a US marketing agency, founder of The VL Studios, and founder and editor of The Northern Voices, the only publication covering all eight Nordic and Baltic communities across North America. Estonian-born. Forbes Under 30 nominee. Young European Heritage Makers Award, European Commission, 2022.

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Press Coverage

Selected

Gulfshore Business

Southwest Florida businesses expand use of AI tools in 2025

Broadway World

Broadway’s Visual Artist Valev Laube Debuts ‘Liminal’ After 15 Years Of Musical Crafting

Ärileht

New Yorgi eestlane nomineeriti Forbesi 30 mõjukaima noore sekka

Press

Indie Hackers

Valev Laube Unlocks the Future of Branding Through AI and Storytelling

Gulfshore Business

Southwest Florida businesses expand use of AI tools in 2025

Broadway World

Petra Jasmiina Unites Nordic & Baltic Artists In NYC With NANY Initiative

Broadway World

Broadway’s Visual Artist Valev Laube Debuts ‘Liminal’ After 15 Years Of Musical Crafting

ShoutOut HTX

Meet Valev Laube | Branding Expert, Multimedia Producer & Marketing Director

New York Business Journal

Lessons from 12 New York business leaders — What they wish they knew before starting out

Conversations

ETV - Välisilm

Välisilm, 25. Hooaeg, 708. Osa - USA valimised

ERR

Broadway director writes musical about Singing Revolution

ERR

ERR USA-s: eestlased aitavad Kalevala-teemalist muusikali Broadwayle tuua

ERR

Eesti jälg: USA

Writing

The Northern Voices

The Third Generation Problem

The Northern Voices

Hingedeaeg, or the Season We Left Behind

The Northern Voices

What the Forest Knows That It Cannot Tell You

The Northern Voices

The Night Came Back, and I Had Forgotten What It Was For

The Northern Voices

What a Bee Taught Me About Getting Lost on Purpose

Cybernews

Ashutosh Syngal’s Decentralized Vision for Secure Data in AI

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