The network

The people I build with.

A modern firm doesn't need a floor of employees. It needs a principal and a network of proven operators who can each carry real weight. These are the people I bring in when a build needs more than I can carry on my own.

The operatorsPeople I've built with
Danny Carpio
The Unfirm: The New Unit of Scale Is You, by Danny Carpio, with key contributions by Larry Florio and Mark Manginelli
Key contributions by Mark
Danny Carpio
Organizational Architect · Author of The Unfirm

Danny was my partner before Digitally Native, and he's the first operator I bring in now. We spent five years building, breaking, and rebuilding together, and raised $15M for Ready Player DAO and another $10M for Thing3. Danny didn't just write The Unfirm, he lived it right next to me, and he put me on the cover. He's one of the sharpest organizational architects I know, and he moves across law, venture, AI, and crypto without blinking. When a client needs more than I can carry on my own, he's who I call. It's only the bottom of the first inning.

Danny Carpio is an organizational architect who has spent the last 13 years building operating systems for businesses and networks that raised eight figures in capital and hit nine-figure valuations. His multidisciplinary work spans startups, venture, services, and decentralized organizations, all tied together by one question: how do you architect and operate an organization so an individual or small team can do enterprise-level work, and outcompete? He recently published The Unfirm: The New Unit of Scale Is You, a framework for modern operators who want to achieve self-scale instead of relying on legacy firm structures, and win.

The Unfirm Ready Player DAO Thing3 Augmented Things
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One principal. Real firepower behind him.

That is the whole model. You get me directly, and the operators I trust with my own name when the build calls for it. No overhead in between.