Entrepreneur · Investor · Advisor · Speaker
I sold my company to private equity. Now I help founders build one a buyer pays for twice.
Navy veteran. Eight-figure exit. I invest in, advise, and build alongside founders of successfully scaling businesses who are struggling to get found on Google, YouTube and ChatGPT.
8-figure
Exit to private equity. I built an elearning company and sold it.
3
Deployments with the US Navy: Somalia, the Balkans and the Middle East.
EO + PEF
Member of Entrepreneurs' Organization International and Post Exit Founders.
Weekly
Host of The Second Bite Show, interviewing founders who built and sold.
The short version
Buyers pay for what works without the owner. I learned that sitting across the table from one.
The Navy taught me to run an after-action review on everything. What worked, what broke, what we change next time. I ran my elearning company the same way.
When I figured out that buyers pay for assets that run without the founder, I built them. Search was the big one: 360 keywords ranked in the top three across 156 product pages. Customers found us without me picking up the phone. Then private equity came calling, and I sold in an eight-figure exit.
I saw exactly what the buyer paid for and what they discounted. Everything I do now comes from that view.
What I do now
Four ways I work with founders.
- 01Advise
Fractional CMO for service companies past $1M that have stalled. I build the marketing and AI systems with your team.
- 02Invest
Capital, systems and my exit playbook for local service businesses under $10M with real revenue and room to grow.
- 03Speak
Keynotes, panels and EO forums on exits, AI and building a company a buyer wants.
- 04Build
Leedly, my agency, makes service companies easy to find on Google, in Maps and inside AI answers.
Receipts
Numbers I can put my name on.
Clients stay unnamed. The results are real and documented.
360
Keywords ranked in the top three across 156 product pages before the exit.
My elearning company93.9%
Of Google AI Mode answers for "medical courier" name this client, at an average rank of 1.39.
A medical courier in 30 metros, 8 states+52%
Clicks from Google in one month, with click-through rate and average position improving at the same time.
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The book · Coming January 2027
Build and Scale
For owners who buy, build, scale with AI, automate, and prepare to sell.
I'm writing the book I wanted before I sold my elearning company. Twelve chapters, in the order an owner actually lives them: design the life you want, decide whether to buy or build, get your offer and economics right, then make the business easy to find on Google and inside AI answers.
The back half is the part buyers pay for. An AI operating system with people still accountable, delivery that runs without you, your own admin automated, profitable scale, and a company someone else can own.
The Second Bite Show
Founders who got paid twice, telling you how.
Every week I sit down with founders, operators and investors who built, sold or reinvented something. We skip the press release and get into what actually happened.
Own a service business?
Doing $1M to $10M and know it can do more?
Tell me what you built and where it's stuck. I read every application myself and reply within five business days when there's a fit.