Bootstrapped entrepreneur, technologist, and investor.
I’m a bootstrapped entrepreneur, technologist, and investor. From 2009 to 2020, I worked with a team to build a platform utilized by hundreds of millions of users over the last decade generating nearly $100M in revenue as my time as CEO. I transitioned into the Chair role in January 2021 and led the company to a successful exit in July 2025. Today, I am an investor and actively exploring my next company.
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Me… in a nutshell
Bootstrapped Entrepreneur That Just Doesn’t Quit
I started my first successful company at 17 with a $200 investment that I barely scrapped together. I saved up the profits from my first company, while continuing and completing my college education as a first generation college student.
As a first generation American, my parents instilled values in me that have been key drivers of my success:
perseverance
determination
discipline
passion
ethics
At 19, I parlayed that success into my second company, Adscend Media. Within 18 months of founding, we hit an 8 figure revenue run rate. Again, bootstrapped and totally debt free. Over the next 17 years, I led the company first as CEO and later as Chair through various successful transformations. Ultimately, we successfully exited the company in July 2025.
Today, I am working on my next company. Stay tuned.
Long Term Fundamental Investor
Since 2011, I’ve deployed a large amount of capital into assets across real estate, private investments, public investments, etc.
Over the years, I’ve also clearly defined my investing style: Fundamental Investing. As a fundamental investor, I seek to understand a business from the inside out and ultimately the appropriate valuation that drives a business. Whether it’s a fast growing startup or a mature company, I try to identify margins of safety and invest for a long term hold. As a fundamental investor, I don’t limit myself to value or growth companies, I just care a lot about the valuation I invest at along with the moat of the company. I also keep an eye across the world, with a significant number of assets deployed into emerging markets.
As an investor the last 10 years, I’ve had a chance to see my fair share of corrections and recession scares. As a founder, I’ve had my chance to see my fair share of nearly company ending events as well, and a chance to also recover from it stronger than before. So, I always keep my eye on the ball.
My all time favorite investors:
Warren Buffet, Charlie Munger, Peter Lynch, Joel Greenblatt, Benjamin Graham, John Bogle, Howard Marks
What’s Next?
Like most, I do believe software will continue to eat the world. I am staying focused on software in industries that I understand and know well.
As my time as co-founder & CEO of a rewarded ad platform company, I had a chance to really understand incentives, virtual currencies, transactional security, how to build an entirely new marketplace many times over, how to lead with technologically driven competitive advantages, and ultimately what makes people tick. I also had a chance to do this at scale, overseeing many billions of transactions.
As I explore my next startup, I’m also investing in young companies where I can provide value in addition to capital.