Human capital architecture
Leadership design, talent systems, incentives, and the operating logic that helps ambitious companies scale without losing the plot.
Private investmentHuman capitalVenture experiments
Austin, Texas / People, capital, operating leverage
People are the
operating system.
A Chief People Officer / Chief HR Officer, angel investor, and operator building the systems that let good companies compound — for ambitious companies, private-equity firms, and family offices.
Bring me the hard problemWhat I doSelective by design
One partner.
Several forms of leverage.
The work changes shape. The standard does not: clear thinking, aligned incentives, and people organizations built to scale.
Investment partnership
A patient, operator-minded perspective on companies, markets, and the work required to turn an attractive thesis into durable value.
Commercial experiments
Focused tests for new offers, audiences, and acquisition ideas — designed to produce signal before time and capital get expensive.
Outside the titleThree lenses, one operating standard
A wider field
of view.
The through-line is simple: put the right people in the right system, then give the system room to perform.
Make the people agenda investable.
Translate talent, culture, and leadership into the language of value creation, integration, and execution.
Back the unusually useful.
Look for founders with a sharp point of view, a real customer problem, and the stamina to keep learning in public.
Stay curious on purpose.
Outside the day job: reading, building, testing ideas, and collecting better questions for the next room.
Have something worth building?