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one.
I work with serious leaders on what matters.
If that's you, let's talk.
Built from the ground up to make augmented intelligence real. Voice-first architecture where conversation is the product—not typing, not waiting, not interfaces. Real-time thinking partnerships with intelligent memory that evolves across every conversation. Currently powering my 18 companies in 18 months initiative. White-label platform for education, research, coaching, and deep study coming soon for partners—built to amplify human thinking, not replace it.
Real-time AI coaching for smarter conversations. Sprockett listens during your calls, providing intelligent suggestions instantly, elevating your performance in sales, negotiations, interviews, and critical discussions.
Truly private calls with no trace. Oblivn creates encrypted, peer-to-peer video rooms that vanish completely when the call ends—no signups, no storage, total anonymity.
An unbiased truth lens for news. Newspeak analyzes real-world news articles across nine bias dimensions, revealing subtle manipulations in language, sourcing, and tone, delivering scientifically validated insights without political agendas.
Your personal AI executive assistant. Vector manages infinite memory and leverages sophisticated adversarial agents, streamlining complex tasks and aligning outcomes perfectly with your strategic vision.
Hyper-personalized horoscopes powered by data science. Ike synthesizes local weather, news, economic indicators, and cultural trends with your personal profile, offering daily forecasts and profound "soul readings" tailored uniquely to your life.
The Internet evolved in cycles. Each loop drives technology deeper into our lives.
The first brought information online. Static pages. Hyperlinks. Digital presence.
The second made it interactive — social, mobile, profitable. A place to engage, not observe.
The third brought infrastructure. Cloud, messaging, scale. We wired the planet.
Now comes the fourth phase.
Not another interface or stack. A redefinition of human-machine thinking.
The product isn't the app — it's the conversation.
The system isn't a tool — it's a partner.
The
interface isn't aesthetic — it's expressive, adaptive, aware.
This wave needs pattern-seers who shape the future.
I've been here throughout — building, scaling, advising. Not chasing trends, but shaping what sticks. Helping visionaries get ahead of what's next — before it arrives.
If that's your direction, I can help. If you're already there — you know why this matters.
Category-defining projects that shaped AI, digital business, and the modern internet.
Built an AI-powered news analysis platform to identify and measure media bias.
Impact: Developed a scalable system leveraging advanced AI scoring methodologies to provide transparent, quantitative insights into media bias, empowering users to critically evaluate news content and make informed decisions.
Developed a secure, anonymous, peer-to-peer video chat platform.
Impact: Engineered a fully encrypted, privacy-centric communication tool featuring disappearing video calls that leave no trace after completion, delivering unprecedented security and anonymity for sensitive conversations.
Created an enterprise AI transformation practice at a top global agency.
Impact: Developed methodologies for holistic AI integration across entire organizations, enabling clients to unlock competitive advantage and build new revenue streams through strategic AI adoption.
Led creation, launch and go-to-market for Venafi's B2B SaaS product.
Impact: Transformed the company from on-premises to cloud-based machine identity management requiring deep expertise in encryption and security. This strategic transformation paved the way for a $1.5B acquisition by CyberArk.
Co-created Beachbody's subscription streaming service.
Impact: Transitioned the company from a DVD-based business to a global digital subscription service generating $100M recurring revenue in just 18 months and expanding to 140 countries, fundamentally changing their business model.
Packaged up 20+ years of experience into a book about how to build great products
Impact: Solved the problem created by the Lean Startup method by putting customer discovery first. Hypotheses and tests are inefficient at discovering true market opportunity. To truly understand, you need to look deeper into unmet needs.
Early investor in three companies exiting in the year. Two that were acquired by Twitter and one by AOL.
Impact: Generated 150x return on investment through early recognition of groundbreaking social technologies that would later become core components of Twitter's platform strategy.
Partnered with Vhayu to create Reuters' first comprehensive global market data history system.
Impact: Built the foundation for modern algorithmic trading by providing the first complete historical dataset capturing every price tick worldwide, enabling sophisticated backtesting and AI model training that now drives trillions in trading volume.
Launched the world's first open semantic web service for structured data.
Impact: Strategically launched the free OpenCalais tagging service to democratize the Semantic Web for developers, data scientists and publishers, driving the Reuters data model into a global standard and supercharging SEO.
Acquired Clearforest Text Analytics for Reuters
Impact: Revolutionized how machines interpret and process information for Reuters' high-frequency trading customers by acquiring and integrating Clearforest, creating machine-readable news specifically designed to power trading algorithms that fundamentally changed financial markets' response to breaking news.
Built and scaled AOL's search business from $20M to $500M in revenue.
Impact: Managed a global team expanding operations across the US, Europe, and India while delivering exponential revenue growth that represented one of the most successful business units in the company.
Launched Google's first AdWords partnership at AOL.
Impact: Created the strategic framework for integrating Google's revolutionary advertising system into major portals, establishing a model that would transform digital advertising and generate billions in revenue.
Introduced first host-based predictive search suggestion features at AOL.
Impact: Created the precursor to modern ML-driven autocomplete functionality that has transformed search interfaces worldwide. These foundational patents are now owned by Meta and Microsoft, powering billions of daily interactions.
Created a subscription-based digital music service at Bounce Networks.
Impact: Built a platform incorporating WiFi, Bluetooth and DRM technology years before similar services existed, anticipating the subscription model that would eventually dominate digital media consumption.
Created the first mobile app for price checking at AltaVista.
Impact: Developed the foundation for mobile commerce on the Palm 7 before smartphones existed, enabling users to compare prices and make purchasing decisions on-the-go, laying groundwork for what would become a multi-trillion dollar mobile commerce industry.
Built CompuServe's automated self-service domain registration and hosting platform.
Impact: Democratized web presence by creating the first system that allowed anyone to obtain and manage their own domain without technical expertise, significantly reducing barriers to entry for businesses going online.
Led CompuServe OurWorld, one of the first online platforms for individuals to publish and share content before blogging existed.
Impact: Helped define the concept of digital self-expression years before social platforms. Paved the way for platforms like Blogger, Medium, and Substack.