I am an entrepreneur in New York who has built brands and products for more than twenty years.
Now
Thesis Driven
Thesis Driven is my publication covering real estate, cities, and the built environment. I write about the ideas and trends reshaping how we live, work, and move through cities — from housing policy to proptech to urban development.
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Thesis Driven also offers education and data products to real estate professionals.
Workshops
Hands-on workshops teaching real estate fundamentals and investment strategy — built for professionals who want to develop a rigorous framework for understanding markets, deals, and capital.
Operator Database
A curated database of real estate operators across asset classes — designed to help investors, developers, and partners find and evaluate the people actually running assets.
CapitalStack
CapitalStack is the largest database of real estate-focused investors, including private equity firms, family offices, and RIAs. It's built for operators looking to raise capital.
Built
A few of the companies and projects I've built over the years.
Common
Common was a co-living and residential management company that reimagined renting in dense urban markets. I founded it in 2015 with the belief that renters deserved better-designed, more flexible homes without the hassle of traditional leasing. We grew to manage thousands of units across dozens of cities, partnering with developers to bring hospitality-grade amenities and community programming to multifamily housing. By 2022, the platform operated more than 7,000 units and was acquired that year by Berlin-based Habyt GmbH.
General Assembly
General Assembly started as a co-working space in Manhattan and evolved into one of the world's leading tech education companies, offering bootcamps and courses in software engineering, data science, UX, and product. What made it interesting was the bet that skills-based education could be faster, more practical, and more career-relevant than a traditional degree — and the market proved that right. General Assembly was acquired by Adecco Group in 2018 for $412.5 million.
GXStudios
GXStudios was a game development studio I co-founded in 2006 on the thesis that mobile and casual gaming would democratize sports — creating a new generation of rivalry-based leagues where everyone could participate, not just varsity athletes. We built and hosted casual online gaming tournaments for the Ivy League, Big 10, Big 12, SEC, and other major associations, drawing hundreds of thousands of players between 2006 and 2008.