“Someday” stopped being
a safe assumption at 19.

When I was 19, doctors found Stage 2B Hodgkin's lymphoma. I was at Northwestern, a theatre major, a lot more at home onstage than in an exam room. I did the chemo and the radiation and finished school anyway. Then I moved to Los Angeles instead of back to the East Coast, because by then playing it safe had a cost I could actually feel.

That urgency turned into a habit: find something worth building and get there before the rest of the room notices. It runs through everything in the log below, from Hulu's early years to the interim CEO seat at SuperBam.

I went to Northwestern to be an actor. I don't mention it to be charming. It's half of how I work. Four years of theatre and improv is four years of training in reading a room: who has stopped talking, what the scene is actually about underneath the words everyone agreed to say, when to hold a beat instead of filling it. I spent the next twenty years inside things as they scaled, paying attention to which decisions made people money and which ones quietly cost them. The useful part is having both.

I think in stories before slides. That frustrates the people who want a deck before they'll engage with the problem. It works on everyone else.

In April 2025 I moved the family to the south of France. We bet that the life we'd been optimizing for in LA wasn't the one we actually wanted. I write, advise, and build from here now. Two kids who think a Tuesday market is normal are the best evidence it's working.