About

Founder first. Systems thinker. Pattern recognizer.

I've spent 25+ years turning emerging technology and market friction into products people actually use. Here's how I think — and how I got here.

The story

From cubicle to a $2B platform.

I bootstrapped Kajabi from zero into a $2 billion company. The creators on that platform went on to generate more than $10 billion in revenue for themselves.

We didn't just build software — we built infrastructure for a new generation of entrepreneurs. It started at night, after full-time work: my longtime friend Kenny Rueter and I set out to give experts a simple way to package what they know and sell it. We launched the beta in early 2010 and never looked back.

Before that, I built inside corporations and as a consultant — Chief Creative Officer, Director of Interactive Marketing, web design leadership — always drawn to the same thing: taking something tangled and making it clear.

My superpower is seeing opportunity before it's obvious. I look at emerging technology, customer behavior, market friction, and product gaps, and I connect the dots early. Then I move. I turn ambiguity into clarity, chaos into structure, and complex ideas into products people intuitively understand and adopt.

I challenge assumptions. I question legacy thinking. I break systems apart and rebuild them simpler and stronger. I care deeply about usability and design, because strategy only works if people actually use what you build. Simplicity scales. Clarity wins.

I'm most energized in zero-to-one environments — new markets, new product lines, new strategic bets. I align teams, define the narrative, and drive execution until the opportunity becomes real. Today I channel that into advising and coaching founders, and into my own next bets: PageSumo and Wazi.ai.

The You, Inc. framework

You are an expert in being you.

Everyone has a business inside them. In my book You, Inc., I map where it hides — four places worth mining for the expertise people will pay to learn.

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Profession

The skills you use at work that others would pay to learn from you.

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Passion

The things you love and happen to be genuinely good at.

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Problems

The challenges you've solved that others are still stuck on.

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Pain

The hard things you've lived through — with lessons worth passing on.

How I think

A few principles I keep coming back to.

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See around corners

Spot the pattern before it's consensus. The best opportunities look obvious only in hindsight.

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Simplicity scales

Complexity is easy; clarity is the work. Strip an idea down until anyone can grasp it — then it spreads.

03

Move while others analyze

Bias toward motion. You learn more from one real experiment than from a month of theory.

Beyond the work

Where I'm based & what fuels me.

I'm based in Trabuco Canyon, California, and work with founders and teams both locally and remotely. I studied Marketing at Azusa Pacific University, where I was a founding father and later president of my chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi.

I follow builders and contrarians — from Tony Robbins to Kevin O'Leary — and I'm endlessly curious about start-ups, product strategy, SaaS, and where artificial intelligence is taking all of it next.

If you're building something ambitious and need someone who can see around corners and build what isn't yet obvious, we should talk.

Let's talk

Ready to build what isn't obvious yet?

Tell me what you're working on — I'll tell you how I can help.

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