Water is free at a fountain, but priceless in the desert. Your product is the water.
You must create the desert.
Water is free at a fountain, but priceless in the desert. Your product is the water.
You must create the desert.
Water is free at a fountain, but priceless in the desert. Your product is the water.
You must create the desert.
I dismantle the structures that hold good ideas back. The system isn't broken; it was designed this way to keep you out. I build the tools to break in.
You think the "best idea wins"? It’s a nice thought, but it’s a lie. History is a graveyard of brilliant ideas that died because nobody got it or nobody cared.
Bad ideas win every day because they are designed to travel. This book isn't about being smart; it's about making your ideas contagious. It is the manual for weaponizing your message to manufacture adoption.
You are apologizing for your size. You are looking at your constraints—small team, limited budget—and calling them weaknesses. Stop it.
Your weakness is your only leverage. The Incumbents are heavy, slow, and blind. They build for the average; you build for the exception. This is the underdog's playbook for asymmetric warfare, told through the real stories of people who actually did it.
Starting a business is a brutal grind—lonely as hell, utterly confusing, and soul-crushingly exhausting. You chase every guru's bullshit advice, only to spin your wheels and end up right back where you started.
The Launch Pad is the cheat code I wished I had. We automated the mind numbing drudgery most people waste their time on, give you tools that actually work, and guide you through the things that actually matter step-by-step.
Raising money is a soul-crushing game of begging rich people who have never actually built anything to let you jump through hoops. They force you to take reckless risks, demanding you either become a 1,000x unicorn or die trying.
The Launch Lab is the capital I wish existed. We reject the "growth at all costs" mentality. We back gritty builders creating sane, profitable companies that last and create actual change.
Being the sharpest knife in the drawer means jack shit if nobody is in the kitchen. In today's real estate jungle, skill takes a backseat to shameless self-promotion.
First Call Agent flips the script. We engineered the Omnipresence Engine that obliterates the marketing slog for agents and brokers. It weaponizes your local expertise into endless, killer content, dominating the digital battlefield on autopilot.
If you want to build real things, the market offers you two terrible choices: flimsy hobby junk that can't hold a straight line, or mega-machines the size and price of a nice car.
The CNC Pro V3 smashes that barrier. We open-sourced the factory floor, giving you professional-grade manufacturing capability in your garage for the price of a laptop. Stop outsourcing your innovation. Download the plans, make your parts, and seize the means of production.
You spend seven years eating instant ramen, losing sleep, and risking everything to build your company. Then, when you finally win, Uncle Sam shows up to take their share of the money you bled for.
QSBS Ninjas is your defense system. We slice through the compliance nightmare, slashing your tax bill by potentially millions when you exit your company. You took the risk. You did the work. You deserve to keep the reward.
Most founders are drowning in their own potential. You have too many features, too many targets, and zero clarity. You are busy being "busy," essentially running on a treadmill and calling it a marathon.
I am not here to be your cheerleader. I come in to kill your delusions and force you to focus on the one thing that actually drives growth. No fluff, just the brutal truth you need to hear to stop spinning your wheels.
If you are waiting for the perfect idea, it isn't coming. Great ideas evolve from mediocre ones. Great work is just a pile of mediocre revisions standing on top of each other.
This site took 54 iterations before it was halfway decent. If I had waited for perfection, I would still be at zero.
Start ugly. Move quickly. Learn. Iterate.
Start small.
Move fast.
A multi-billion dollar airline started with a chalkboard and a chartered flight.
A Nobel Prize was won with a $5 roll of tape.
A Silicon Valley unicorn was launched with an air mattress in a living room.
You succeed by testing, learning, and iterating faster than the market can reject you. Stop waiting for perfect conditions.
Minimize your investment, maximize your learning, and just start.
TEST.
LEARN.
ITERATE.
I don't fit neatly into a LinkedIn bio. I’m an investor who breaks things, a writer who builds furniture and robots, and a strategist who prefers action over planning.
This is a snapshot of the projects where those worlds collide.
It’s just spilled ink until you give it meaning. Where the crowd sees a mess and feels anxiety, the builder sees a playground.
I help you tune out the noise and turn confusion into clarity.
"The first draft of anything is shit." — Hemingway.
I help founders take the red pen to their business before the market does it for them.
The "average" customer doesn't exist. Stop building for them.
Find the one person who is actually looking for you.
The market doesn't punish failure. It punishes boring. You don't win by shouting louder in a noisy room. You win by being the glitch they can't scroll past.
Don't just stand out.
BE UNIGNORABLE.
You cannot persuade an audience that isn’t listening. To be heard, you must first command their attention.
Make some noise.
MY MISSION
THE REALITY
THE STRATEGY
THE BUG
THE IMPACT
I build systems that make that possible.
Building the machinery that makes 'lucky' outcomes inevitable.
Correction is the highest form of creation.
Build for one, or build for none.
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Volume is a strategy.
Blueprint for Change
Blueprint for Change
The Signal
Viral_Payload
Contagion
Every meaningful project starts the same way: with a belief that something should change. The problem isn’t the idea; it’s getting other people to care.
Ideas That Spread is about translating ideas into impact by treating adoption less like alchemy and more like engineering.
Underdog Strategy
Underdog Strategy
Hidden Value
Zero_Day_Exploit
Guerrilla Tactics
Power doesn’t work the way we’ve been taught. Early-stage builders look at their constraints—small teams, limited funding—and see them as weaknesses.
That’s how they lose. You don’t win by being a worse version of the incumbent. You win by being a truer version of yourself.
Real-World Application
Real-World Application
Active Ventures
Applied Systems
Executables
Experiments
The Business Operating System
The people this is for aren’t short on talent or ambition. They’re the ones propping up teams, fixing broken processes, and quietly generating far more value than they’re paid for.
The Launch Pad exists to change that. It’s a Business Operating System that gives first-time founders a clear, repeatable path from “this could work” to “this is live.”
Capital at the Speed of the Builder
Traditional VC optimizes for power-law returns. That’s why founders are pushed to “swing for the fences.” The Launch Lab is capital for a different game.
It backs operators who want to build sane, resilient companies—businesses that make money, serve real people, and give the founder more options over time.
The Omnipresence Engine
In modern real estate, visibility beats expertise. The result is the Invisible Expert problem. First Call Agent fixes that imbalance.
It acts like a quiet, always-on marketing department, turning your market insight and day-to-day wins into a steady stream of content, visibility, and AI-friendly signals.
Democratizing the Means of Production
To change the physical world, you must be able to build in it. Hobby CNCs are cheap but flimsy. Industrial machines are inaccessible.
The CNC Pro V3 is built for the space in between. It’s a professional-grade, open-source CNC that is affordable, adaptable, and capable of doing serious work.
The Path to a Tax-Smart Exit
For most founders, a big exit is both a once-in-a-lifetime win and a once-in-a-lifetime tax bill. QSBS Ninjas removes that uncertainty.
We’re not a law firm. QSBS compliance is all we do. You answer a few questions, we map your situation, and you keep more of your exit.
Fast-Tracking Clarity
Most founders aren’t short on ideas. They’re drowning in possibilities. This work is about giving them a clear, confident center of gravity.
The goal isn’t a prettier strategy deck. It’s a team that knows exactly who they serve, what promise they’re making, and what to say no to.
A transaction is a trade of value.
A gift is an exchange of emotion.
We’ve been taught to market "features" and "benefits." We talk about speed, efficiency, and ROI. But humans aren't spreadsheets. We are bundles of memory, emotion, and desire.
The best products are gifts in disguise because they make your customer feel something. If you want to move a person to overcome the inertia of complacency and take action, you must make them feel something.
Last year, a friend gave me a map (above is a digitized version). On the surface, it’s a creative illustration. But to me, it was the feeling of being seen and appreciated.
Every landmark—from Boardgame Bay to the Corky Cuddles Cove—represents years of shared history and meaning. This year, I’m returning the favor. She loves fantasy books, so I turned our map into a quest. She is the protagonist on an adventure with her best friends, navigating the world she built in the map.
My favorite show is Taskmaster. For my birthday a few years ago, a dozen of my friends created a full-length episode in which they competed in tasks, just for me.
They didn't give me "content." They gave me the undeniable proof that I am part of a tribe. They gave me the feeling that my presence in their lives was worth an absurd amount of collective thought and effort. That is the highest form of a gift: feeling a deep sense of belonging and connection.
People don’t buy for the product. They buy for the way the product makes them feel. When you move the heart, the mind follows—and the product begins to sell itself.
Creativity is the ultimate arbitrage.
Linear leverage is a blunt instrument.
Most of the world tries to solve problems through linear leverage. They believe that to get more impact, you need more inputs: more capital, more engineering, more hours spent working.
But capital and engineering are competitive markets, and you can only work so many hours in a day.
Creativity is exponential. It is the infinite tool to bypass the logic of the "Mind" to speak directly to the "Heart."
"When you don't have the budget to outspend, be the most creative."
Result: Psychological Monopoly
Exponential leverage lies in the creative layer. Get creative and make your customer feel something.
You don't need a massive team or budget. You just need the courage and practice to be creative.