Supporting Founders
I've been an angel investor and startup advisor since 2019. My focus is on founders building durable businesses — at the intersection of AI, human purpose, and markets that were previously out of reach. I work with a small number of teams per year.
Where I invest
Early-stage. My functional focus is growth, product, and people. Thematic areas:
- Marketplaces and impact-driven businesses
- Workforce and education
- Resilient systems — human, supply chain, environment
- Energy (we'll need infinite of it)
How I advise
I specialize in three modes:
- Founding — Zero-to-one product building. Finding the first customers, stress-testing the core thesis, and building conviction before scale. Most founding work is about deciding what not to build — and finding the minimum version of the right thing.
- Re-Founding — Transforming from a single-product to a multi-product business. Most companies fail here because they mistake distribution for platform readiness. Re-Founding is about diagnosing when the core is strong enough to expand from, and building the next product without cannibalizing what works.
- Business Design — Model design and iteration, especially in marketplaces and network effects products. The work is structural: how to align supply and demand, where shared success creates defensibility, and how to build liquidity without losing margin.
Work with me
If your work fits the areas above, reach out — I'm happy to have a conversation.