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Started programming in Applesoft BASIC in 1984
Developed turn-based game with Bayesian mechanics in 1986
BBS publishing starting 1988
network hacking > exiled to mechanics + physics
admitted to college a couple years early 1992
attended trade school at night to learn to weld 1993
learned how to use a lathe, mill, other machine tools 1994
Started HTML publishing 1995
Started 3D modeling 1995
Developed PBASIC apps + IoT devices 1996
Studied history of product design 1996
Developed embedded C++ firmware 1996
First experience working in a nuclear facility 1996
Began using unit tests 1997
Brief return to hacking experiments 1997
Studied psychology of UX design 1997
Designed parallelized machine classifier 1997
Developed computer vision system for microscale thermofluid analysis 1998
Adaptive optics design for telescope computer vision 1998
First time living in SF Bay area, worked in a research lab 1998
Second experience working in a nuclear facility 1998
*Started using CodeWarrior for Palm OS 1999*
Developed portable navigation device 1999
First time as a founder 1999
First time holding a US government security clearance 1999
Third experience working in a nuclear facility 2000
pivoted from PhD program to business school 1999-2000
Developed custom Winamp for embedded Windows 95 2000
Developed dynamic programming algo trading  2000
*First personal investment (VR display tech) 2000*
Studied interplanetary satellite rocket mechanics and route planning 2000
Hand-built satellite power system using not-for-foreign-export solar tech 2000
First Support Vector Machine implementation 2001
First patent application 2001
Designed Windows CE music app 2001
Designed autonomous car software for Audi 2001
*Founded first real startup 2001*
*First incoming investment 2002*
Frst intern hire: future co-founder of Flurry (acquired by Yahoo)
**Held political office as a city councilman in NH 2002**
Smartphone OS PM at Microsoft 2003
First tv interview 2003
First formal usability test 2003
First IP legal challenge 2003
too many startup and software research projects to list 2003-2005
Convert to radical IP reform 2005
Machine learning for music 2005
First mobile enterprise sales app 2005
Mobile advertising platform PM at Motorola 2005
*Worked for future founder of Siri 2006*
First global usability study trip 2006
Weekly dev meetings at Google to plan forked version of Android 2007
Passed on iOS PM role @ Apple, just before iPhone 1 launch 2007
*Won New York Times Product of the Year 2008*
Negotiated new Android app security model between Google + Moto + AT&T 2008
First movie cloud platform 2008
Spec'd first Android app 2008
Spec'd HDR smartphone camera system 2008
Hired first team in England 2008
First deployment on AWS EC2 2009
First Facebook app 2009
First app store platform, Moto App Store 2009
*Acquired first startup 2010*
Hired first team in Shanghai 2010
*Acquired second startup 2010*
Start of really awful quality 2010
*Acquired third startup 2011*
Built second app store business, HTC Hub 2011
First day adding 100k new users 2011
Managed 150-200 people in Paris, Minsk, Shanghai, Beijing, Seattle, Taipei 2011
$5M in monthly product development spending 2011
*Founded third company 2012*
*Really really quit waterfall 2012*
*Really really quit MSFT tech 2012*
Developed iPhone app 2012
First #1-ranked app store listing 2013
First toy in a toy store 2013
First FB mobile ad 2013
First Series A round closed 2013
First outbound personal angel investment 2014
First Firebase project 2014
Created realtime chat app 2014
Joined 500 Startups community 2014
First paid advisory project, for Federal Trade Commission compliance audit 2014
First Unity project 2015
First VR project (15 years after first VR investment) 2015
First time formally advising a government group that resulted in a change in regulations 2015
Resumed reviewing code 2015
First team in NYC 2015
First consumer bank app 2016
First TensorFlow project 2016
First profitable 20+ person business 2016
First day adding 1M new users 2016
First portfolio investment exit 2016
First time compiling Google Fuschia 2017
First team in Washington DC 2017
First team in SF 2017
First top-10 global AI competition outcome 2018
First formal medical trial 2018

Lifetime-to-date AWS spending over $20M 
Lifetime-to-date business spending over $100M
Lifetime-to-date hiring total over 400 people
Lifetime-to-date firing total over 75 people
Lifetime-to-date P&L-responsible revenue total over $400M
Lifetime-to-date corporate entities formed 10+
Lifetime-to-date staff who are now CEOs or sr execs: 20+

Lifetime-to-date M&A total over $100M
Lifetime-to-date investment portfolio value increase, 3.5x

Current hourly rate for consulting time through R+W: $400