OPen
Grow early-stage companies.
write books.
take notes as I go.

Ab

ut

leading all marketing at Recast. Before that, worked with early-stage companies on growth & digital product at nf&co. also writes books.

driven by quality, cohesive marketing: Creating go-to-market systems & executing with quality.

The Work 1994 - now

Worked with a variety of fast-scaling consumer and B2B companies. Select clients:

Head of Marketing + work on GTM

/ Recast

now

Growth and Product Manager

/ nf&co.

2021-2023

SEM + CRO

/ Beyond (while at nf&co.)

2022-2023

Paid Growth + AMAZON PPC

/ Hawthorne (while at nf&co.)

2022-2023

GTM strategy + CRO + Paid Growth

/ Slip.stream (while at nf&co.)

2023

Paid Social

/ Nom Nom (while at nf&co.)

2023

CRO + Paid Growth

/ Better Place Forests (while at nf&co.)

2023

Author

/ non-fiction, fantasy & more

2017-now

M.F.A. Creative Writing

/ Adelphi

2017-2019

B.A. Computer Science

/ Amherst College

2012-2016

Growth

DESIGN

PRODUCT

SYSTEMS

QUALITY

Writing + thinking

How do complex things come into the world? How do they grow? What do the plot of a fiction novel and a startup go-to-market plan have to do with one another?

There are common processes that turn complex ideas into distilled, tangible objects. I study these principles across disciplines, and document what I've found at 0 → .1.

writing

design

Go-to-market

systems

BRand Vision

CRO

Fiction

marketing

design

growth systems

writing 10+

Growth

0) Intro: Zero to Point One

0 → .1 is a manual for bringing big ideas into the world.

Growth

1) Distilling Ideas Into a Designing Principle

Finding bedrock: designing principles are the one-line strategies that ideas grow from.

Growth

2) Building Around a Designing Principle

How to build around a designing principle.

Marketing
Design
Growth

3) The MDP: A Minimum Designing Principle

Crafting a minimum viable starting point.