Alec smiling and showing off a small arm tattoo

I have a habit of building things

Sometimes they even work!

Alec cheering in the snow at night while sitting on a friend
Alec arm wrestling a friend at a rooftop bar
Alec in a giant bucket hat slurping ramen
Alec winking over a huge beer with friends
Alec sticking his tongue out in a selfie next to a mummy
Alec and his mom at a patio dinner
Alec holding up a stingray on a boat
Alec squeezing through a tight tomb tunnel with a friend behind him
Alec in a hot air balloon at sunrise with more balloons behind him
Alec in a vampire cape on Halloween with his grandparents
Alec wearing swim goggles and a tie with a friend
Alec relaxing with a glass of wine at a winery
Alec holding a fluffy brown puppy
Alec grinning in front of hieroglyphs in a temple
Alec under an umbrella in front of misty mountain peaks
Alec and a friend kicking back in red recliners with drinks and chips
Alec taking a selfie in front of Abu Simbel
Alec fly fishing in waders on a lake
Alec leaning on a stone railing at a lake with mountains behind him
Alec sipping coffee under palm trees
Alec getting a piggyback ride from a friend in a kitchen

A Few Numbers

AI Tokens Used

160,972,243,160

That's top 0.01% on the planet!

$5,440,000

Revenue Generated since 2021

Avg team size = 3

Things I've Done

Ideas are cheap.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison

Rands Flooring & Tile

I built a flooring company from $0 to ~$500K/yr.

I co-own it and run the money side: pricing, systems and the day-to-day calls.

RFT Estimator

Then I made pricing a job 30× faster.

I built its estimator. An hour of work now takes two minutes.

Go on, price a job

1 What are we tiling?

2 How big?

120 sq ft

3 Pattern and tile

2 What kind of pan?

$0

0 man-hours, about 0 for a crew of two

Demo rates. Nothing is saved.

Entities

I sold out the Entities collection for $2.2M in sales.

After launch, I ran the 30,000-member Discord built around it.

So Veblen

I also advised startups that brought in $2.4M.

Go-to-market and pitching, for early-stage Web3 teams.

Things I've Made

Trench Attack 1916, a Things They Saw video Things They Saw@ThingsTheySaw · Eyewitness diaries and forgotten stories, WWI to the Cold War. ▶ Watch 98,632hours watched 012345678901234567890123456789,012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789,012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789views on YouTube + Facebook

Things They Saw

I turned forgotten eyewitness accounts into a history channel.

Diaries and letters from WWI to the Cold War, on YouTube and Facebook.

Humans Did This prototype

When AI can fake anything, I built a way to prove a human made it.

Makers are verified in person, then stream the making live. Chat, buy the piece, or join the queue.

Kalshi Parlay Bot

I built a bot that plays the house on Kalshi parlays.

Someone asks for a parlay, it prices every leg against the sharpest sportsbook lines, and it only takes the other side when the bet is +EV.

ScoutFlips retired

I built a scanner that found eBay auctions worth flipping.

It priced live auctions against real sold listings, took out eBay's fees and scored every flip. eBay's API and terms changes shut it down.

Sequoia Selections retired

I bought from wholesalers and sold it on Amazon.

I found the products that sold, opened accounts with wholesale distributors and ran the whole operation through Amazon FBA.

Places I've Been

Places I've livedPlaces I've visited(drag to spin, tap a country for its name)

Lived in Vermont, Washington, California, Utah, Auckland. Visited United States, Canada, Costa Rica, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Albania, Greece, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Cyprus, Egypt, Rwanda, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, China, Cook Islands, Tonga.