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50+ keynotes, lectures, and testimony
From the TEDx stage to Congressional hearings to university lecture halls — stories about building, told by someone who did the building.
TEDxMileHigh · 2015 · 25,000+ views
How to Build a Place-Based Economy Where You Live
What happens when a community owns its own economy — told through a decade of building Re:Vision in southwest Denver, and the case for nurturing residents as the catalysts of their own neighborhood's change.
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Building AI-native product organizations
How a bootstrapped team rewired itself around agentic development — what changed in roles, review, and quality, and what only looked like it changed.
Marketplaces in regulated industries
Two-sided dynamics, trust, and unit economics when every transaction touches healthcare compliance across multiple states.
Building under constraint
Scaling a platform seven-fold against VC-backed incumbents with no outside capital — what constraint teaches about prioritization.
Place-based economies & community ownership
The TEDx thesis, ten years on: what actually happens when neighborhoods own the economy around them.
TEDxMileHigh · U.S. Congressional testimony · University of Denver · CU Denver & Boulder · Sturm College of Law · National industry conferences
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