Samperet.com

strategy, relationships, systems, design, & code.

Acadialps.com

A strategic sales channel built for C-suite conversations.

Recruited 220+ senior advisors, many of them former Big 4 consultants, to build a strategic sales channel dedicated to C-suite conversations.

Founders Wanted

Turning stagnant intellectual property into companies.

Searching through thousands of pieces of stagnant intellectual property, and commercializing the viable ones by injecting marketing, recruiting, and seed money.

Projects successfully launched include AI Parkinson’s detection, NASA-based rock blasting, and IoT consumer devices.

Airbnb

Early host, PDX founder.

One of the first 2,000 hosts to sign up. By the time I started working there, my host ID was too short to use as a badge number.

A PDX founder, in the first batch of hires to open the Portland office. I played a critical role in designing the customer service processes and building the office itself, including Brian Chesky’s favorite table, inspired by Twin Peaks, and a honeybee room with custom laser-cut bee-nest chandeliers.

A bear-shark sculpture, half polar bear and half shark, suspended from the ceiling of an Airbnb officeSelfie in safety glasses in a workshop, in front of a giant sphere made of patchwork wood

Automation

Automating things since childhood.

I was automating things as a young child: building games in HyperCard, and later designing home automation routines in Xcode.

Click anywhere and he’ll point. Click him to ask again.

Design

Deep attention to detail.

Aesthetic design, systems design, and onboarding UX design all capture my deep attention to detail.

I enjoy elements of surprise and delight, context awareness, and memorable user experiences.

Consciousness, Yoga & Self Development

Facilitator, group leader, lifelong student.

A facilitator of HeartIQ, a body of work from the Netherlands.

Leading men’s groups through the ManKind Project since 2012.

Humanitarian Relief

Showing up after disasters.

Went to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and to Tacloban, Philippines, after Typhoon Haiyan.

In Tacloban we were the first Americans to arrive, and paved the way for the relief efforts that followed by converting a ransacked hospital into a distribution warehouse.

The relief team on the steps of R.T. Romualdez Hospital in TaclobanThe team in scrubs with backpacks beside a C-130 on a rain-soaked runwayVolunteers with a resident beside a storm-damaged house marked FEMA in New Orleans

Travel

Places that shaped how I see things.

Japan, Nepal, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Malaysia, the Philippines, Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, the Czech Republic, Amsterdam, Moldova, Ukraine, and Mexico, plus multiple drives across the USA.

I’ve also lived in Maui, Australia, and India.

Tree pose on a limestone pillar in the Pinnacles desert, Western AustraliaWorking on a laptop in a beach café in India, under a hand-painted menu boardSitting cross-legged on a brick wall beside a stupa in Nepal

jayaandfiona.com

Jaya and Fiona’s Fun Zone.

Hosting experiences for my kids that make learning and communicating fun.

Making things for them was my entrance to vibe coding, before the term was coined.

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Questions, ideas, or just hello.