🔧 Founder, ✒ Writer, 🤑 Investor, 🐮 Cowfund Lead

🐦 @divine_economy

👋 Quick Pitch

I'm the cofounder of two companies that work to incubate and support talent while growing their businesses. I see angel investing as an extension of that work. We're moving towards a world in which creators don't work for platforms, but platforms work for creators—and likewise, we're moving towards a world where founders don't work for investors, but investors work for founders. As an investor, I'm here to work.

👨‍🎓 Background

• Cofounder of Felix

  ~ Weekly autopay and invoicing for freelancers in <5 taps

  ~ The only autopay tool for freelancers with variable payments

  ~ "A sleek mobile interface that auto generates an invoice based on time, date, hourly rate, and expenses" — Fast Company

• Cofounder of Forum Education

  ~ The highest-paying tutoring firm in the US: develops technology to automate all overhead and pay educators better while giving them clients, community, and tools for building out their business

  ~ EdTech apps and diagnostics used by dozens of tutoring agencies and thousands of students each month

  ~ 43% annualized growth of ARR over seven years (profitable from third month)

• Writer of Three Quarks

  ~ Weekly explorations of economics, crypto, and the creator economy to map alternate futures

  ~ Sample pieces include "User-Generated Finance," "Fan Fiction and the Consumer-as-Creator," "The Unbundling of Youtube," and "Ray Dalio, Marxist"

• Past lives: ****educator (tutor in all subjects for 10+ years), translator (Spanish, French, Portuguese), film critic (classic Hollywood devotee), literature major (Yale '08)

🤝 Ways I Might Help

• Deep Dives: Writing long-form articles and memos to articulate why companies matter and will succeed
• Advisory: Leveraging my background—building businesses, advising startups, mentoring freelancers, teaching finance, and developing SaaS products—to chart potential paths for the future
• Domain Expertise: Consulting on specialized fields of knowledge, particularly EdTech, Fintech, standardized testing, and freelance creator markets
• Connections: Sharing my network of 1000s of educators, consultants, creators, founders, and investors to support projects however possible
• Developing Tech: Continuing to share and devise technology that can automate operations for businesses and freelancers so they can focus on creative side

📝 Theses

• Web3 shifts us back to a decentralized p2p economy that was the foundation of the internet in the 90s, but this time with tools for monetization and social engagement that have been the domain of major corporations in web 2.0.
• The major aggregators are no longer giant corporations but creators and fans, and the act of aggregation blurs the lines between the two.
• The best marketing and distribution is done by fans.