For Auth0 (now OKTA) I wrote and produced a short documentary featuring one of the 147 million victims of the Equifax identity breach in 2017. Imagine this story repeating itself 147 million...
Last week I gave a quick presentation at Emily Carr University of Art + Design on how (and when) to pitch your Startup, giving many of these students their first look at the process of pitching investors in the Angel and Venture community on their next killer idea....
Originally published @ PROFIT. Famed UCLA Basketball Coach John Wooden once said, “Sports do not build character. They reveal it.” A considerable body of social science research has explored the positive impacts of athletics, in particular team sports, from youth into...
During an ill-fated teenage dalliance into acting, I took a class on improvisational comedy. For two credits per week I learned the ins and outs of building a scene, in real time, with my fellow actors. The key lesson you learn in your first improv workshop is to...
Often (too often), I am approached by people who think I make apps and want me to give them a price to make theirs. Most people outside the technology industry figure that these are fairly trivial efforts, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. They’re right,...
It’s been at least 10 years since I’ve cobbled together a few lines of code, or INIT 6’d a server, so I feel as though I can practically qualify as a non-technical CEO in a technology startup. It is for this reason that I can empathize with the plight of the...
