I grew up watching my dad build a company from nothing. I spent summers in his office working on his website — so I learned early that nobody hands you customers. You earn them.
In college I found poker. What started as micro-stakes online turned into six years playing professionally — my real education in applied probability, pattern recognition, bankroll discipline, and the nerve to bet big when the odds are right.
When Black Friday ended online poker in the U.S., I took that thinking into business: billboards, then night-school marketing, then a climb through the HubSpot ecosystem, AvidXchange, Drift, and Frase. Same job every time — find the system, find the leverage, build the engine that compounds. Read the full story →