LET'S TALK ABOUT

• Bootstrapping a business
• Personal finance
• The student loan debt crisis
• Overcoming adversity (specifically a parent w/ addiction problems)
• The pitfalls of venture capital
• Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and economics

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After graduating to no jobs and a deep recession in 2008, I made a bad situation worse by taking out student loans and going to law school. I graduated and became an attorney only to realize I couldn’t pay down my debt on an attorney salary ($250,000 and interest was growing by $1,500/mo).

Desperate to get out from under the mountain of debt, I decided the best way to pay it off was to start my own company. I couldn't find a technical co-founder to help with my startup idea, so I drove a shuttle bus for minimum wage while teaching myself to code. Then, I worked my way up the ranks from lowly intern to lead engineer at a publicly traded software company.

For 5 years, I spent every night, weekend, and even used my PTO to work on my startup, Wavve. In 2020 I was finally able to to pay off my student loan debt and leave my day job.

After selling Wavve for a mid 7-figure sum in 2021, we took everything we'd learned about retention and turned it into a new business, Churnkey. We're growing quickly and thrilled to be saving businesses millions of dollars per year.