I help founders and leaders see what comes next—for the company and for themselves.
Entrepreneur. Investor. First believer. Author.
I’ve spent my career building companies, backing people before consensus and zagging when the expected path didn’t make sense. Today, I advise a small number of founders and leaders at consequential moments.
Voodoo Ventures is the history behind this work. I’m not currently making new investments or accepting pitches.
Criticism is easy to find. First believers are not.
When Patrick Comer returned to New Orleans to build Lucid, plenty of investors told him no. I wrote the first check, and Lucid went on to become New Orleans’s first unicorn and was acquired for $1.1 billion.
The outcome mattered. The deeper lesson mattered more: one credible believer can give you room to become what you already see.
That is still the role I know how to play.
When I’m useful.
The hardest decisions rarely fit neatly into a board deck. Sometimes the company is at an inflection point. Sometimes you are.
You can see something other people can’t.
You need a first believer who will also tell you the truth.
The old playbook no longer works.
AI, the market or the company has changed—and the conventional answer feels wrong.
The company is working. The life around it isn’t.
You want to keep building without losing the person, relationships and meaning that made any of it worthwhile.
I work with younger founders learning to trust an uncommon vision and experienced leaders deciding what the next chapter requires. Age is not the filter. Agency is.
I advise. You operate.
You don’t need to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to build the success you want. You need clarity, high agency, an unrelenting pursuit and the willingness to take strong, calculated risks. My advice is hard-earned and lived—not assembled from Forbes articles.
You don’t have to follow the playbook.
The obvious path isn’t the only one. I’ve built my career by seeing around corners, pursuing ideas before they were obvious and being willing to go when other people said it would not work.
To me, high agency is not relentless productivity. It is the ability to strip away expectations, decide what matters and build a company—and a life—on your own terms.
Strong risks. Calculated, not careless.
The book
Agency. Joy. Meaning.
I spent five years writing Analog to understand the question beneath all the companies, investments and turns in my life: What does it mean to live well—and why wait?
Analog is the worldview behind this work. Build agency so you have your hands on the wheel. Maximize for happiness instead of postponing joy. Find meaning in the people you lift up and the life you are building now.
The book is the philosophy. The advisory work is where we put it into practice.
A few companies I’ve believed in.
NOLA → LAGOS → HEALDSBURG
Innovation is everywhere. Talent is everywhere. Opportunity is not confined to the coasts.
- Lucid
- Flutterwave
- The 86 Company
- Neighborland
- Research Defender
- Microtraction
Notes from the uncommon path.
I write about investing, agency, AI, joy, meaning and what it takes to build a life well lived.
What are you navigating?
If you’re facing a decision that changes the company—or the life around it—send me a candid note about what is at stake and why it matters now.
Tell me what’s at stake