Entrepreneurial judgment.
Not entrepreneurial culture.
I’m a builder. I figured out what to build, built it, scaled it, protected it — and made it worth acquiring. Now I work with growth-stage companies and bring the same standard to the decisions that will define where the company goes next.
Leverage decides who compounds and who just works hard.
The foundations of business don’t move. Leverage does. So there’s one measure I never stop applying: is the business becoming more valuable? Not just in revenue — in defensibility, in clarity of direction, in the quality of what it’s building.
Technology decisions are valuation decisions.
Technology choices show up in the margins, in how fast a business can adapt, and in what customers actually get. The decisions that feel purely operational — which systems you own, which you rent, how you treat your data — are often the ones that decide whether performance compounds or just keeps up.
On building.
Technology Strategy for the Company You Actually HaveThe decisions that feel operational are the ones that get priced at the table.
Tell me what you’re building. I read everything.