150mEntrepreneurship
What I've built.
Five ventures, in roughly the order they happened. The thread: find an edge, package it, and get it to the people who need it. Open any one for the full case study.
Ventures and companies
Mocean Technologies
Founded and acquired, 2021 to 2023A research-distribution platform for Discord. Founded at 19 on a gap year, scaled to acquisition.
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 2023An 11,000-member networking community. Founded and acquired.
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.
Element Underground
Co-founder, 2023 to 2026Underground music events that became a dance-music media agency. Co-founded in 2023.
Element Underground is a live-music brand I co-founded in 2023 at the University of Michigan. The idea was the kind of nightlife you have to know someone to get into: curated, female-forward DJ sets, tech house and techno, rooms that feel like a community instead of a club. The reference point was Cercle, the way they turned events into a content engine.
Profit Paradise
Co-founder, founded and acquired, 2019 to 2023A paid alpha community for resellers, $7K/month at peak. Founded and acquired.
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.