Twenty years ago, industry insiders saw YouTube. And most put their heads in the sand. They dismissed it.Discredited it.Mocked it as amateur hour. There was no economic incentive.No prestige.No immediate validation. So legacy media largely ignored it. But innovation —… Continue Reading →
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who manage reality, and those who try to bend it. Entrepreneurs, founders, and builders belong to the second category. They don’t simply accept outcomes — they attempt to manufacture them…. Continue Reading →
Why we’re formally opening the process — and what it means for investors, partners, and Montreal. For the past few months, the Peanut Project has existed in an unusual space: highly visible, quietly serious, and deliberately unstructured. That was intentional…. Continue Reading →
A Lost Chapter from The Confessions of Alexander the Great. I had crossed many territories in my youth—some with sword, some with coin, and some with nothing but a story and the audacity to believe it could become an empire…. Continue Reading →
This is the most substantive update in the Peanut Project journey, though I recognize it’s a bit of “inside baseball” with regards to deal-making. I could not have done it without the community’s support, help and words of encouragement. End… Continue Reading →
For nearly two decades, WatchMojo has been known as a digital-first media company that understood audiences before “audience-first” became a buzzword. But from the beginning, WatchMojo was never just a YouTube company. It was a studio—one that happened to distribute… Continue Reading →
Dear Expos community, TL:DR: Institutions don’t reward silence. They reward credibility. And credibility comes from consistency under pressure. Institutions don’t reward silence. They reward credibility. And credibility comes from consistency under pressure. It’s not that principles hurt profit. It’s that… Continue Reading →
JFC. Mind blown. WatchMojo may be best known for film, TV, and gaming—but my soul has always been music. Early on, around 2012, I leaned into that and personally wrote and produced many of our music Top 10s, curating the… Continue Reading →
I recently read a solid case study on the implosion of MrBeast’s burger venture. It was a good read. While I was familiar with most of it, there were a few new details that were genuinely interesting. What struck me… Continue Reading →
To succeed in entrepreneurship, you need: Vision vs vision: Vision (upper case V) is the “big idea,” the “Why.” Here, “making Montreal great again” (for lack of better term) via the return of baseball and the Expos, but also the… Continue Reading →
As the Expos Peanut project moves from abstract idea to disciplined exploration, I’ve found it useful to be explicit about how I’m thinking about people, roles, and sequencing. Frankly, one month into the journey, I have not even focused on… Continue Reading →
One of the quiet milestones over the past few weeks has been crossing into what I’d call a FrieNDA phase. Not formal NDAs yet, but enough shared context, candor, and mutual respect that conversations are no longer hypothetical. While I personally adopt… Continue Reading →
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