Started by closing over $1M in revenue myself in my first year out of college. Identified the need for inbound leads and built out the entire marketing department from scratch — growing it into its own division at $60K MRR. Clients took notice.
This is where I went deep on AI. Built expertise with Claude Code, started building automations, custom skills, and internal tools to automate business operations inside the app. Aloa is where the "non-technical technical AI guy" identity was born.
ActiveThink fantasy football or March Madness-style brackets, but for The Bachelor, Big Brother, Survivor, and more. Nearly 400,000 mobile app downloads since 2024 with very little to no marketing spend, averaging around 50,000 monthly active users.
Built an email database of over 1.25 million addresses and a weekly newsletter with over 50% open rate.
On the AI side, I built the entire website from scratch, designed the full CMS, and created automations for uploading new shows, contest info, and all content — replacing what used to be a manual process with a fully automated pipeline.
bracketology.tv →Built on the thesis that the racial wealth gap is correlated to the liquid wealth gap — your net worth minus home equity. If you can increase wealth from assets, you further increase generational wealth.
The average company that raises a friends-and-family round and goes on to raise a subsequent $100K+ is about 2.5%. Our portfolio performed at about 25% — 10x the benchmark.
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