Successful investor, advisor, board member, innovator, founder, public speaker, podcaster, author and visionary CEO who is ready to give back in the next phase of my life.Growing, bootstrapping, and exiting BiggerPockets after 14 years & serving on the board for 5 years afterwards taught me innumerable lessons. Overcoming the countless challenges and learning how to build a nationally recognized brand, launch products, build teams, create partnerships, remain profitable (every year since launch), fail fast and pivot, challenge the status quo, and much more has helped bring me insights that few others can offer. I helped to transform how real estate investors connect, collaborate, partner, learn via best in class web, mobile, audio, and video content along with doing the same in the publishing business.Highlights include: - Founded and grew the world’s largest real estate investing community.- Launched and co-hosted the most successful real estate podcast and one of the top business podcasts in the world, While host, the BiggerPockets Podcast was ranked as a top 10 business podcast and one of the top 150 podcasts in the world.- Created and grew BiggerPockets Publishing to become the dominant real estate publishing house, with over 20 book titles sold online and in stores. Created sales and distribution channels to build a multi-million dollar business. - Built national / international brand, firmly established as the key community for the real estate investing vertical, resulting in articles, mentions, interviews and features in newspapers, magazines, television, and across countless podcasts and online articles.- In demand public speaker who has been in demand as keynote, speaker, and panelist at a wide range of events, covering topics including entrepreneurship, real estate, social media, and personal finance. - Regular podcast guest on top business, entrepreneurship and real estate shows.- Scaled and grew an idea and a team of one and a business that many VCs and Angel Investors thought was unscalable, into to a company with over 50 full time employees and contractors, and a successful exit after 14 years to Private Equity.And now I want to bring these skills to other industries and companies seeking ideas for growth.I’m currently seeking opportunities to help advise, invest, and partner in startup technology companies and brick and mortar businesses, along with looking for new board opportunities in the private sector and non-profit space; also looking for any interesting real estate, angel, fund or other investment opportunities.