I build businesses,
and the people
who build them.
Technologist, founder-builder and speaker. I sit beside founders and build with them, and I take the stage to make technology make sense for any room.
▸ Learnings
read all →Useful reads for founders, operators and the curious.
Part 1: Two AI tiers on one Mac Studio, and the routing between them
First in a series on running local and cloud AI together. The economics piece answered whether to own your AI. This one is the wiring: a 93.7 GB Flash Next model, Kev decision models, a hosted frontier model, and Hermes deciding which one answers. Measured on the machine, with the parts that are still rough named.
12 min read → For foundersBootstrapping is the new default. Building alone is not.
Every founder I work with arrives excited that AI made building cheap. They are right about the economics, and usually wrong about who they hire next.
6 min read → For foundersHow VCs are starting to look at AI startups
What's actually changed in how investors size up an AI company, and what it means if you're raising now.
5 min read → PerspectiveIn the AI age, the generalist wins
The world says niche down. I think that's backwards. AI is the great amplifier of breadth.
4 min read →▸ The journey
For twenty years I've built alongside founders, taught the next generation, and stepped on stage to make technology make sense. I've helped get more than a hundred startups off the ground, taught thousands of young people myself, and I'm still the kid who started as the friend doing tech support.
speaker · panelist · moderator · mentor · workshop facilitator
To be the node in a thousand founders' stories, the one who handed them the controls.
