I like to do
new things.
I build technology companies and new engines of growth. Fourteen startups founded, five Fortune 500 businesses led — turning meaningful customer problems into scalable businesses.
7 profitable · 3 exits · one 1-in-32-quadrillion run of five straight wins on $5K of capital.
My superpower is building successful technology companies — and creating new engines of growth for established ones.
I founded two of the first startup studios in the U.S., identifying meaningful customer problems, solving them with technology, and building scalable businesses around them. Alongside that, I’ve led product and growth inside five Fortune 500 companies. That combination — startup instinct plus enterprise scale — is what I bring to every problem.
Build startups
Founder and operator across DTC, adtech, martech, e-commerce, consumer data, ML and AI — from first customer to profitable exit.
Lead product
Product visionary and leader with an intuitive read on what customers want — and how to package it into products that grow.
Create growth engines
New business models that scale inside large companies — turning stalled divisions into growth engines worth billions.
Insight-Driven Iteration
A scientific method I created for finding product-market fit and scalable business models — and keep refining today.
- 01Find a meaningful, unsolved customer problem.
- 02Solve it with technology.
- 03Test the idea with real customers, fast.
- 04Iterate relentlessly toward product-market fit.
- 05Build a scalable business model around it.
Work with my studio
I build alongside a team of entrepreneurs with over $4B in startup exits. Companies hire us to create new engines of growth — on a consulting basis, or as a custom-made startup we build and run with corporate sponsorship.
Startups I’ve founded
Fourteen companies across data, marketing tech, e-commerce and AI. Seven profitable, three exits.
A startup studio focused on software, AI and e-commerce — the current launch point for my best ideas.
Multi-Channel Direct Marketing. A bootstrapped studio that built five profitable startups in a row and returned 1,460× on invested capital.
Predicted click-through at the customer level. 202%/yr growth, 48 straight months of profit, 500M+ emails a month. Sold to DealGenius.
The first 250M-record, 100% opt-in omnichannel consumer database. Profitable 11 years running. Merged with Datalove.
Lead-scoring that beat the $4B category leader by 5×. Sold to a strategic buyer.
Bootstrapped from $5K to $3M revenue, with an in-house pick-pack-and-ship warehouse. Sold to DealGenius.
Custom audiences built from life-event signals, with a pivot toward a transactional loyalty platform.
The world's #1-rated lean startup program, rebuilt as software to help founders find product-market fit.
A cure for loneliness. 12K users and 500 real-world experiences across 60 cities in 90 days.
A safe space for Creators to build their business and own their content, data and assets — free from BigTech censorship.
A new model for rideshare — safer, more consistent, reliable experiences for premium customers.
A simple, elegant way to store all your exercise data — strength, cardio and interval training in one place.
Outsourced growth engines for P&G, John Deere, SC Johnson, American Family and more.
Rated the world's #1 lean startup training program by UP Global in 2013. The origin of FounderDojo.
Inside the Fortune 500
Product and growth leadership at five of the world’s largest companies.
Built the strategy to enter an $82B market on Amazon's on-demand apparel manufacturing — a plan for $350M revenue at 35% margin. Secured funding, built a launch team and shipped v1 with early customer traction.
Created AT&T Digital One Rate — a $1.5B market-cap unicorn in 90 days that reshaped the wireless industry and defined the pricing model still in use today.
Turned a $57M division from −15% to +12% top-line growth in under 10 months by building new engines of growth around enterprise data integration.
Delivered the first profit in company history: −$6M loss to +$1.2M EBITDA in 15 months with no capex. New products hit 45% of revenue. Sold to InfoUSA.
Developed new products under Crest, Scope and Peridex — where I learned to turn customer insight into innovative products and business models.
Harvard Business School
MBA, General Management — with a focus on information systems and disruptive innovation.
Purdue University
BS, Chemical Engineering — graduated in three years with four co-ops at Dow, 3M and P&G.
Thoughts on building, growth and the founder’s journey.
Let’s build something new.
Whether you’re a founder, an operator, or a company looking for a new engine of growth — I’d love to hear what you’re working on.