Roll with me
The openspot
Honest truth: this page is the reason the site exists. Everything else is the coat and the lineup. This is the part where you wave. If you are hauling something that needs hands, the knock list below is short and you are probably on it.
One honest note beats a perfect deck. A person reads it.
The knock list
Four kinds of knock
These four get an answer fastest. None of them require a deck, a warm introduction, or a finished plan.
- 01
A small business or startup that wants an operating partner
That is the whole job at Eat Sleep Launch Repeat: growing small businesses and startups by developing their digital, physical, and human infrastructure. Operating partner means hands on the actual machinery, riding next to you, not advice shouted from the curb. The design rule rides along too: whatever we build has to run without me.
- 02
A new venture that needs launch muscle
Getting a thing rolling through the first rough miles is the trade I have practiced longest: early Uber markets across Northern and Western Arizona, about eighteen months on Lime's US launch team, market expansion at the climate tech company Sealed. Different rigs, same job. If yours is still up on blocks, write anyway.
- 03
A weird idea you cannot put down
Weird ideas ride up front here. The lineup already carries a haunted history tour company co-founded with my mother and a retreat center on Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula, and its last spot is open on purpose. You do not need a business plan to knock. You need the idea and the itch.
- 04
A community project in Flagstaff or the high desert
Home is Flagstaff, Arizona. I volunteer with the Black Rock Rangers at Burning Man, the crew that helps people rather than polices them, and I spent 2014 to 2020 on the board of the Care About Climate youth nonprofit, including a stretch as chair. If something needs shoulders, ask. The high desert counts as around here.
Say hello
Flag me down
Write like a person and it lands with a person, usually somewhere around 7,000 feet.
Here is everything that happens when you hit send: the note arrives, and I read it. Tell me what you are working on, where it is stuck, and what kind of hands it needs. Two or three plain paragraphs are plenty.
Before you knock
Who is in the coat
If you want to know who you are writing to first, fair. The long version of the story is one page over, and the lineup is cataloged with every link open.