About

I grew up obsessed with chess and computers — competitive enough at chess to earn a FIDE rating before high school, and convinced enough about computers to pursue a CS degree. When I graduated in 2011, I had a job offer waiting. I turned it down to start a gaming company with two childhood friends instead. In hindsight, completely reasonable decision.

We made mobile games for thirteen years. One of them — a multiplayer drawing and guessing game — ended up being played by millions of people across the world, which still feels a little surreal. Eventually the economics of mobile gaming got brutal, and we made the call to wind things down. No regrets. It was a good run.

A couple of years later I co-founded a cotton candy company. (Yes, cotton candy.) We started with a single outlet in a mall, spent a year learning the product and the customer, then pivoted into manufacturing. Things got hard — the business was losing money and needed to be turned around. That became my full-time problem for the next couple of years, and solving it turned out to be some of the most useful work I've ever done.

I'm now wrapping up my exit from that venture and looking for what's next. I write here about the stuff I've lived through — how to rescue a struggling operation, how to build a team that runs without you, knowing when to quit, and the general weirdness of spending your thirties building two completely unrelated companies from scratch.

I'm actively looking for new opportunities — something where I can help build and run things at scale. If you're working on something interesting, or just want to say hello, I'd love to hear from you →