Breadth only looks scattered if you assume a person is supposed to be one thing.
What I've Built
Established companies and platforms. The foundation everything else stands on.
Payments
Established
Operator
Merchant payment processing: getting businesses set up to accept money reliably, and keeping that running once the novelty wears off.
What interests me
Processing is the least glamorous part of any business and the part that stops everything when it breaks. I like work where being dependable is the whole product.
Payments · Regulated industries
Established
Operator
Payments built for complex, heavily regulated industries — the categories most processors quietly decline.
What interests me
The hard part isn't technology, it's risk, compliance and relationships. Solving for all three at once is genuinely difficult, which is exactly why the opportunity is there.
What I'm Building
Live projects with my hands in them week to week.
Payments · Cannabis
Active
Operator
Payment solutions designed around the specific realities of the cannabis industry, where legitimate operators still struggle to access ordinary financial infrastructure.
What interests me
An entire legal industry has been treated as unbankable. Building infrastructure for people everyone else avoids is the most interesting version of this work.
Music · Performance
Ongoing
Artist
Live performance — clubs, festivals, private and corporate events — mixing DJ sets with live guitar, and leaning into country-EDM as a sound of its own.
What interests me
It's the fastest feedback loop I have. A room tells you the truth about a decision within about eight bars.
Music
Active
Operator
The hybrid live project: my DJ set with Kristian Cruz playing live electric guitar over it. Two performers, genuinely live.
What interests me
Everything I've learned operating companies applies here too — it just happens to be pointed at sound instead of settlements.
Capital
Ongoing
Investor
Backing and occasionally advising businesses I understand. No published thesis, no fund, no track record claims here.
What interests me
Operating teaches you what a hard week looks like from the inside. That's most of what I bring to a founder — I've been on the other side of the table recently enough to remember.
What I'm Exploring
Not announcements. Directions I'm reading into, funding, or testing quietly.
Companies
In progress
Varies by project
New companies, joint ventures and partnerships in progress. Named here once there's something real to point at.
What interests me
The best projects have started as a conversation with someone I already trusted. I'd rather move at the speed of relationships than announcements.
Experiment
Early
Personal experiments
Ongoing experiments with AI and automation inside real operating businesses, rather than as a topic to have opinions about.
What interests me
Most of the value is unglamorous: fewer manual steps, faster answers, less rework. I'd rather ship one boring improvement than a demo.
Community
Ongoing
Organizer and participant
Third Thursday and the other rooms I help put together in Austin. Not a business — but it's built the same way, on repetition and follow-through.
What interests me
Community compounds like anything else. Show up for a few years and something exists that didn't before.