I co-founded Akamai Technologies, which has grown to a $16 billion market cap and became one I co-founded Akamai Technologies, which grew to a $16 billion market cap and became one of the fastest companies in history to reach a billion-dollar valuation. I then founded JUMP Investors, which has invested in more than 100 early-to-late-stage companies, including Google, Seagate, and Lyft. Along the way I founded and ran several other companies, including Sandee, the world's leading beach discovery platform, and I host In Search of Excellence, a top-ranked business podcast featuring guests like Tony Robbins, Mark Cuban, and David Solomon. For the past 25 years, I've been an executive coach and trusted advisor to more than 300 founders, CEOs, and executives, and I've held 60+ advisor and board positions. Here's what I help founders with: ✔ Growing your business - getting your first customers and jumpstarting growth ✔ Skipping the mistakes - you don't know the playbook yet, and I've run it many times ✔ Raising money like a pro - the pitch deck, the investor list, and the meeting itself ✔ Building your network - meeting anybody at any level in any industry ✔ Having someone to run ideas by - a confidante who's been in your seat of the fastest companies in history to reach a billion-dollar valuation. I then founded JUMP Investors, which has invested in more than 100 early-to-late-stage companies, including Google, Seagate, and Lyft. Along the way I founded and ran several other companies, including Sandee, the world's leading beach discovery platform, and I host In Search of Excellence, a top-ranked business podcast featuring guests like Tony Robbins, Mark Cuban, and David Solomon. For the past 25 years, I've been an executive coach and trusted advisor to more than 300 founders, CEOs, and executives, and I've held 60+ advisor and board positions.  I have a crazy story about overcoming significant obstacles, overcoming failure, staying the course, and pursuing my dreams until I achieved them.  I moved to Los Angeles when I was 24 years old after graduating law school with $3,000 in the bank, didn’t know anybody there, lost my job five in five and a half weeks, found a job that required a minimum 3-hour commute 6 days a week, was told I had to leave six months later, and found my third job in eight months.  At the time I was miserable – I hated practicing law, badly needed and wanted a change, and finally convinced myself it was time to pursue my lifelong dream of starting my own company and earning a significant amount of money.  I wrote 300 cold letters to CEOs after being told nobody would meet with me, landed 80 meetings, was hired as the Assistant to the Chairman at a Fortune 500 company, stayed for three years, saved up enough money to live without a salary, started a company in Boston with three people at MIT that grew in value to $14 billion in less than two years, and started my own VC firm among many other companies.   My motto Anything Is Possible.