AI innovator, award winning filmmaker, and top podcaster. Founder of @vengoaiapp and Director of @KingsHighwayDoc and @CuttingCorners5

Philadelphia
Joined February 2009
Today I explore why marketing a technology startup can be so much harder than promoting a movie. Understanding your audience before spending money on marketing can make all the difference. Listen to the Podcast: bit.ly/4yYoEoZ
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Today I explain why adding more features isn't always the answer when your startup struggles to attract customers. Listen to the Podcast: bit.ly/3UhINax
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Today I explore why studying your competition can be valuable, but watching them too closely can actually hurt your startup. Podcast: bit.ly/4zfEefQ
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Today I speak with Michael Praver about the process of raising capital for a startup or business expansion. Podcast: bit.ly/4ADh0BB Video: youtu.be/ft6lU5uKseA
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In this episode of Strap On Your Boots, I explore why I've become increasingly interested in building companies with customers before turning to investors. Listen to the Podcast: bit.ly/4xAYNlo
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Today I speak with James King, founder and fund manager at ROAS Fund, about an emerging investment opportunity created by the way businesses acquire customers through platforms like Meta and Google. Podcast: bit.ly/4yCEjtC Video: youtu.be/CT3B5epS76o
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Nearly 20 years into independent filmmaking, I believe there’s never been a better time to make a movie. Using my latest documentary, @BeforeMoonFilm, I explore how technology, distribution, and direct access to audiences have changed everything. Listen: bit.ly/3SWyCr4
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From growing Instamour to roughly half a million users to building companies today around paying customers and enterprise contracts, I explore why proving people will actually pay may be the most important validation a founder can get. Podcast: bit.ly/4cmv349
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What if the most terrifying alien abduction wasn’t what it seemed? THE ANOMALY is a psychological sci-fi horror short about a woman struggling to understand a terrifying encounter and the darker truth behind it. Created for the @HiggsfieldAI Global Film Festival 2026. #SciFi
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Today I explore why I've stopped treating five-year business plans as predictions of where a company will actually end up. Podcast: bit.ly/3SbSDtD
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Today I speak with Dr. Bruce Dorey, executive coach, and engineering CEO, about one of the biggest challenges organizations face today: preserving decades of institutional knowledge before it walks out the door. Podcast: bit.ly/4xL44av Video: youtu.be/_EsajwjrxOo
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Drawing from my experience from the evolution of @vengoaiapp from a consumer product to B2B SaaS and eventually enterprise, I explain how small teams can listen to customers, test ideas, pivot, and respond to the market incredibly quickly. Podcast: bit.ly/4z0L3Cu
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In this episode of Strap On Your Boots, I reflect on turning fifty and the biggest lesson I've learned after decades of building startups, making films, writing software, and exploring new ideas. Listen to the Podcast: bit.ly/4yVjIl6
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In this episode of Zero to CEO, I speak with Bryan Blakeny, therapist, counselor, and founder of EQ Education, about why so many successful people still struggle to find fulfillment. Podcast: bit.ly/4wrupdu Video: youtu.be/maPoc8WUu9k
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Today I share one of the biggest mindset shifts I've had as an entrepreneur: why I stopped searching for the perfect co-founder and started focusing on building the vision first. Listen to the Podcast: bit.ly/4wN4fSf
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I reflect on one of the biggest lessons I've learned after building multiple software companies: creating a great product is no longer the hardest part of entrepreneurship. Podcast: bit.ly/4f91G7k
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Today I speak with leadership coach and somatic practitioner Naomi Scott about why so many high-performing entrepreneurs burn out — even after achieving success. Podcast: bit.ly/4eNSaWT Video: youtu.be/z0d9zX0Fv0A
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I get asked most often: How do you decide what to work on next? Looking back on a career that spans startups, AI, filmmaking, music, writing, and entrepreneurship, I share the framework that naturally emerged over the years. Listen to the Podcast here: bit.ly/3R5c0E1
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Today I spoke with Founder and CEO Allan Khazak about why most high-ticket teams don’t have a lead problem — they have a broken conversion process. Podcast: bit.ly/4exxz9n Video: youtu.be/r_cHWeft6Kg
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In this episode of Strap On Your Boots, I reflect on how startup culture shaped my view of entrepreneurship and why I recently found myself questioning one of my own assumptions. Podcast: bit.ly/4vR9xvH
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