150mEntrepreneurship
What I've built.
Early businesses taught me to understand customers, improve workflows, and connect technology to revenue. These case studies give the background behind how I work today.
Ventures and companies
Mocean Technologies
Founded and acquired, 2021 to 2023A research-distribution platform for Discord. Started at 19 on a gap year, sold in 2023.
Mocean was a research-distribution platform for Discord, and I started it at 19 on a gap year, splitting my time between recovering from ACL surgery and helping care for my mom as she fought ALS. The opening was structural: more than a thousand Discord communities were each selling their own market research, but every server was an island. The research was real and it was everywhere, and none of it could travel. The bottleneck was never the research. It was distribution, so I built software to fix that.
Resell Network
Founded and acquired, 2019 to 2023A networking community for the reselling industry, sold alongside Mocean in 2023.
Resell Network was a gathering place for the reselling industry, and I spent close to four years building it. It was not a paid alpha group like Profit Paradise. It was an open marketplace: hundreds of group owners, thousands of resellers, graphic designers, bot makers, cook groups, and freelancers, all in one Discord.
Profit Paradise
Co-founder, 2019 to 2023A paid community for resellers, started in high school. Made free in 2023, then wound down.
Profit Paradise was my first company, and I started it in high school. It grew straight out of a hustle: I had been a dishwasher making $10 an hour, and my co-founder Peter had taught himself to flip sneakers at fourteen, walking out of Sneaker Con with more shoes and more cash than he came in with. He started texting me the drops, the raffles, and the discount codes, I made more in a weekend than a week of dishes, and we realized the real product was never the shoes. It was the information.
Ocean Supply
Early venture, started at 16Sneaker arbitrage, my first real operation.
Ocean Supply is where the ocean theme on this whole site comes from, but the story starts before it. My first real business was selling candy out of my bunk at sleepaway camp, buying the giant combo packs at Target with my dad before each summer and reselling them to the other campers. My first actual job was washing dishes at a local supermarket, up at six every Saturday and Sunday for about four years. It taught me one thing very clearly: I never wanted to make money with my hands again.