About
Built on 20,000+ miles traveling the country for primary research, 65+ interviews with creatives, entrepreneurs, and investors, and more than fifteen years building agencies, advising ventures and funds, and hosting creative platforms — the library keeps growing.
In Sequence
The creative economy is restructuring. This book maps the forces reshaping creative value, provides 35 deal structures for capturing it, and lays out a four-stage progression from execution to ownership. Built on 20,000 miles of primary research and years of practitioner experience.
Advisory
Experience
As an advisor, operator, strategist, and investor — working across ventures, investment funds, family offices, and agencies to structure deals, build ownership, and capture value in the creative economy.
Speaking
Engagements
Conferences, universities, and workshops on entrepreneurship, the future of work, and the shifting economics of the creative class. Institutions include Yale, RISD, Parsons, Art Center College of Design, and more.
The Operator
Practitioner first, researcher second. More than fifteen years building and leading creative agencies, coaching startups, advising ventures, and recruiting global creative talent. A blue-collar background — wood shops, manufacturing floors, fork trucks at sixteen — that shaped a bias toward making things, not theorizing about them.
The research started on the road. In 2016, a greenfield research project on the future of the creative economy: 20,000 miles across the U.S., 65+ interviews with entrepreneurs, creatives, investors, artists, agencies, and professors. The methodology was inductive — conclusions emerged from evidence, not the other way around. That research became the thesis. The thesis became the framework. The framework became In Sequence.
Today the work continues — expanding the library of deal structures and case studies, advising creative professionals on ownership transitions, and building the tools that help creatives capture the value they create. All while partnering with private capital partners to invest in and impact the future of creativity.
