The Work
The stories that follow span healthcare, healthcare technology, fitness, real estate, community programming, education technology, and media and entertainment.
I am building a company around a catalog the industry has been renting one title at a time
Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of a creator-owned entertainment company built around the storytelling catalog of New York Times bestselling author JaQuavis Coleman — 37 controlled intellectual properties, an audience already earned, and a foundation in Flint funded by the business it belongs to.
Read the storyI am building an operating platform that helps focused healthcare ventures thrive
Healthcare does not lack resources. It lacks alignment. A shared platform can create leverage without erasing independence.
Read the storyI organized an informal behavior into a venture architecture
Families were already solving the problem through personal networks. The behavior existed. No trusted system organized it.
Read the storyI found the growth engine inside the hours no one valued
A 39,000 square foot club was losing members and at risk of closing. Its most valuable asset was the time nobody was using.
Read the storyI turned visibility into deal flow — and overlooked assets into value
A new investment platform competes first for confidence. Before capital moves, the market needs a reason to believe in the people behind it.
Read the storyI used a narrow timing advantage to define the destination
Larger developers had more capital and more land. We had fewer than seven months, and the chance to shape how the entire area would be understood.
Read the storyI saw an employer problem where the industry saw a membership sale
The category competed on discounted access. The real opportunity was relieving an administrative burden.
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