I was not supposed to end up here.
My story does not begin with an entrepreneur in a garage or a kid taking apart computers.
It begins with addict parents, instability, and a childhood filled with things no child should ever experience.
By seventeen I was released from a government group home with no family waiting, no plan, and a trash bag with a few clothes in it. I spent months homeless, sleeping in an abandoned building, eating out of trash cans, and riding a rusty bike to a minimum wage job pushing carts at Home Depot.
There was no mentor.
No lucky break.
No inspirational moment.
There was only survival.
And a belief that if I kept moving, something in my life might eventually change.
I taught myself technology because it felt like the first thing I could control.
At nineteen I solved a technical problem that teams of senior engineers had struggled with for years.
By twenty-one I sold my first piece of software for seven figures.
I also lost most of it, learned the reality of taxes the hard way, and learned how fast money exposes people who were never truly in your corner.
My twenties and early thirties were cycles of building, losing, and rebuilding.
Betrayals from family.
Betrayals from partners.
Divorce.
Financial collapse.
And the biggest fight of all, a stage four cancer diagnosis with an eleven percent chance of survival.
I survived the chemo, the surgeries, the coma, and the year I spent trapped in a body that no longer felt like mine.
When I walked out of that chapter, I had nothing left except clarity, discipline, and a refusal to quit.
Those qualities shaped the founder I eventually became.
I built Cloud 9 from the ground up and later sold it.
I built Voiceovers.com and sold that as well.
I helped thousands of businesses stay alive during COVID by covering their hosting bills myself when they could not.
I created wealth for people who had never seen wealth before.
I learned to read people.
I learned to trust slowly.
I learned that resilience is more valuable than talent.
Today I am the founder and CEO of Chargezoom, one of the fastest-growing AI-powered AR automation companies in the United States.
We solve the biggest financial problem for businesses.
We help companies stay alive.
We help them get paid.
We help them protect their time, their cash flow, and their future.
The success I have today did not come from luck or inspiration.
It came from discipline, consistency, and a relentless refusal to quit.
It came from a life that taught me how fast everything can disappear and how important it is to build something you believe in.
Outside of work I am a car enthusiast, a health and performance obsessive, a creature of routine, and someone who believes in quietly helping the people and causes that matter.
I live between homes in California, Nevada, and Utah, but my life is anchored in the same habits every morning to keep me grounded and in control.
What I care about today is simple.
Building companies that solve real problems.
Helping people around me improve their lives.
And leaving behind a legacy of impact, not attention.
When I die I hope people do not talk about what I owned.
I hope they talk about how their lives were better because I was in it.
Everything else is secondary.
