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Ideas, notes, things I’m building and conversations worth sharing - sent occasionally.

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the best conversations happen at midnight.

Long-form conversations with founders, builders and interesting people - less surface-level advice, more of what actually happened.

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The Midnight Pod recording session

THE BUILD LOG.

Every brand, in order. The ones that worked, the ones that were sold, and the ones that quietly died at midnight.

  1. 2015BUILD LOG

    GENTRY CLUB

    Fashion. The first experiment in building a brand after dark.

  2. 2016BUILD LOG

    WAVY LEGGINGS

    Activewear. A quick lesson in trend timing and product-market fit.

  3. 2017BUILD LOG

    DUSK NCL

    Fashion. Another midnight project that ran its course.

  4. 2017BUILD LOG

    VARIOUS DROPSHIPPING STORES

    A range of ecommerce experiments, stores and products - testing different ideas, categories and ways of building online.

  5. 2019SOLD

    MIDNIGHT CITY

    Jewellery. A brand that taught more than it earned.

  6. 2020SOLD

    NEON BEACH

    LED lighting. The last idea before the current chapter began.

  7. 2021LIVE

    The Midnight Pod

    Podcast. Long-form conversations with founders, operators and interesting people.

    VISIT
  8. 2022LIVE

    SPACEGOODS

    Functional coffee and wellness products. Still going.

    VISIT

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Brand OS

The operating system for building and scaling a modern consumer brand.

Eight years of building brands - the frameworks, tools, decisions and expensive mistakes I wish I had before I started.

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HOW I BUILD

nothing exists.until you create it.

Ideas only matter when they become real. I want to build with speed, taste and conviction - focusing on what matters, following reality, and turning good thinking into products, brands and companies people genuinely care about. The goal isn’t activity. It’s creation.

  • 01

    GREATNESS OVER NORMALITY

    Make things meaningfully better, not simply acceptable.

  • 02

    FOCUS COMPOUNDS

    Do fewer things, exceptionally well. Complexity has to earn its place.

  • 03

    REALITY WINS

    Truth over ego. Evidence over narratives.

  • 04

    SPEED MATTERS

    Decide. Build. Launch. Learn. Improve.

  • 05

    TASTE IS STRATEGY

    Product, brand and experience are part of the business itself.

  • 06

    FREEDOM IS PART OF THE OUTCOME

    Success should create more possibility, not more captivity.

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the romance of possibilitybefore the outcome is known.

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