I took apart my mom's VCR before I could read, just to see how it worked. That curiosity drove my mother crazy, and it defined everything that came after.
By 12 I was buying and selling on eBay before I had a bank account, one of the earliest on Napster, LimeWire, PayPal, and every iPhone since the original. Online poker in 2003, eight tables at once from my dorm room. My first Bitcoin for $18 in 2011, before most people could spell blockchain. Every time a new wave came, I was already in it.
It has been my handle, @digitalnative, for over 15 years.
I spent nearly a decade in financial services. It taught me how markets move and how people decide when real money is on the line. But I couldn't stay away from the edge.
So I co-founded Ready Player DAO, a $15M decentralized organization investing in blockchain gaming. We ran an 8-figure business from a Discord server with 25+ partners around the world. No office, no boardroom, every capital decision voted on-chain. One of the wildest, most eye-opening stretches of my career. Out of that I co-founded Veri, an AI operating system for content creators.
Now I've focused all of it into Digitally Native. When a buyer asks AI who to trust, most good businesses are nowhere in the answer. I get you into that answer, then build the systems that handle everything it brings in.
I run it founder-led on purpose. When you hire Digitally Native, you get me, not a stack of account managers and a junior team you never meet. When a build needs more firepower, I bring in operators I've built and raised capital with before. People I'd put my own name next to.
My faith and my family come first. That is the actual order I operate in, and it shapes how I treat people and what I choose to build.