Over the past decade, I've built three multimillion-dollar businesses while growing a family and raising four children.

I started with no resources, no connections, and didn’t have access to the playbooks that would have made the journey 10X easier. 

As a kid, I made money garden landscaping for families at church, manufacturing merchandise for private clubs, and then developing websites and running ad campaigns for local companies.

By 21, I was founding companies. In the decade since, I've:

➤ Generated $300M+ in revenue
➤ Built operations in 1,000+ U.S. cities
➤ Served over 3 million customers globally
➤ Helped grow hundreds of small businesses
➤ Raised $30M+ in capital from Angels, VCs, Private Equity, and Family Offices
➤ Successfully navigated both successful and failed multimillion-dollar acquisitions
➤ Been featured in leading publications like Forbes, Bloomberg, Entrepreneur, USA Today and more
➤ Worked with and advised the world's most iconic brands, including Diageo, Mars, Tesco, 7-Eleven, AB-InBev, Molson Coors, and Constellation

BUT, the journey was hard (harder than it needed to be).

I’ve faced many of the things you don't think about when starting a company:

→ Fought off (and won) predatory lawsuits
→ Closed a Seed round days after my wedding
→ Negotiated with demanding government agencies
→ Worked with lobbyists to introduce or change legislation
→ Raised a Series A while in the hospital for my first son's birth
→ Navigated a failed multi-million dollar merger while my daughter was born
→ Survived near-extinction events where we had single-digit weeks or days to save the company

Personal interests: Boxing, strength training, being in the ocean, spending quality time with my wife Danielle and our four little ones.

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My insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNBC, Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, and more.

I bring 20 years of experience on Wall Street and in banking, including roles at Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and JPMorgan, along with a degree in finance. I use that background to break down investing and personal finance so you can make smarter financial decisions.

I’m an event-driven and macro investor. I’m also an advisor and angel investor to several startups and small businesses. I help founders scale their companies, their teams, and themselves. I also own and operate several cash-flowing businesses inside my personal HoldCo.

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Anthropic just published the most important study on AI and jobs.

The researchers call it a "Great Recession for white-collar workers."

It maps out EXACTLY which jobs AI is actively performing right now vs. which ones it COULD perform.

Are you building skills AI can't replace?

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Last Monday, IBM lost $20 billion in market value in six hours. Not because of a recession. Not because of fraud. Not because of bad earnings. Because

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1 in 4 unemployed people (1.8 million Americans) have been job searching for over half a year, per CNBC.

And unemployed Americans with 4-year college degrees now make up a record 25.3% of total unemployment.

If you have a job, hold onto it with your life.

Because if you get laid off, it’s going to take you months to find another one.

US lost 92,000 jobs in February. And it's only getting started. The data doesn't lie.

Skills beat degrees. You can either adapt to this World or wait for a World that's never coming back.

If you’re an HVAC tech, plumber or electrician, you’ll have NO college debt and always find a job.

I have no idea why people look down on trades.

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