Notes
Work, life, & everything in between
From time to time I write up personal reflections on various topics and post them. An old school blog.
The Beauty of Building Sites: Three Decades of Property Adventures
From growing up in building sites to twenty years of renovating my Balham flat, plus lessons from a Grade II listed building project that taught me when to walk away.
Business · Leadership
From CEO to 6am Instructor: Seven Years of Teaching BodyPump
The real story of qualifying as a fitness instructor whilst scaling a tech startup, teaching through COVID, and retiring after seven years at the top of my game
Leadership · Team Building · Startups
"All the Gear, No Idea": Why Consistency Beats Perfection in Founder Fitness
The honest truth about staying fit whilst building companies: team sports, terrible nicknames, charity challenges, and why your dog might be your best fitness coach
Leadership · Team Building · Startups
Paying It Forward: Why I've Always Advised Startups
Advisory work spanning Eight & Four mentoring, UCL teaching, Goldman Sachs 10KSB graduation, and watching former employees build their own ventures. Why the best business advice should always be actionable, empathetic, and freely given.
Leadership · Startups · Business
Resilience Is a Muscle, Not an Organ: How Every Crisis Made Space for Something Better
The real story of building resilience through redundancy, recession, burnout and pandemic. Why bad often leads to good if you're ready for it
Leadership · Startups · Business
From Products to Profits: Building Tepilo, Twilert, and ScreenCloud to a Nine-Figure Exit
The evolution from digital agency to product studio, launching multiple ventures including a property platform with Sarah Beeny, Twitter monitoring tools, mobile apps with 19M downloads, and ultimately ScreenCloud's exit
Startups · SaaS · Business · Product Management · Technology
From Rage Quit to Silicon Roundabout: Building a Digital Agency in London's Tech Revolution
The story of how rage quitting in 2003 led to building Codegent, acquiring Thin Martian, and riding the wave of London's first tech boom from Clapham to Old Street.
Business · Startups · Technology · Leadership · Web Development
Back to Coding After 15 Years: How AI Became My Development Partner
My journey from being 15 years out of coding to building a modern website using Claude Code - a story of human-AI collaboration in web development
Technology · Web Development
