I've spent 17+ years at the intersection of product, engineering, and early-stage growth — building companies from scratch, leading technical teams inside funded startups, and advising founders through the hardest early stages. Some of those companies worked. Some didn't. Both taught me more than any success story ever could. What I've learned: most startups don't fail because of bad ideas or weak tech. They fail because of unclear positioning, premature scaling, or building for the wrong customer — problems that are hard to see from the inside. I work directly with founders at the MVP and pre-revenue stage — specifically on: → Validating whether what you've built actually solves a real problem → Reviewing your MVP through the lens of a paying customer → Unblocking the path to your first paid customer → Identifying what's actually stalling your early traction If you're a founder who has built something but isn't sure it will land — or you're struggling to convert interest into revenue — this is exactly the conversation I'm here for.