Category Strategy & Competition

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP): Parc des Expos + 4C (Creative, Cultural, Commercial Campus)

Stadium District Master Plan + Design + Development + Construction Partners Issued by: Peanut Project LLC (“Peanut Project”)In collaboration with: Granicus Advisors (“Granicus”)Confidentiality: All the info is public and available to all, if you wish to sign an MNDA please… Continue Reading →

ExposFAQ: One Team or Many? (aka Is This Gonna End with a Press Conference with You Buying the Padres & Retiring in San Diego)?

Everything happens for a reason. Now that would make for a memorable final scene in Willpower, after the hilarious MLB Group Chat and the tear-jerking opening day theatrics. When I first began exploring sports franchises as an asset class —… Continue Reading →

From Conviction to Process: Launching the Peanut Project’s Next Phase

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 →

The Second Successful Siege of San Francisco

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 →

Re-Introducing WatchMojo Studios: Scripted Stories & Unscripted Formats

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 →

Why Conviction Creates Leverage (and Silence Destroys It)

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 →

The Rebirth & Relaunch of the SoundMojo record label

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 →

Over-Extension, Pivots, and the Myth of “Just Add Capital”

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 →

Can Expos Field A Competitive – let alone Winning – Team?

SIGN UP FOR EXPOS SEASON TICKETS HERE. “OK, but can Montréal actually compete?” It’s the most common — and fairest — question I get (well, after “you’re not a billionaire, how can you pull it off? – previously answered. The… Continue Reading →

Location, Location, Location! Help me help you.

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 →

If You Want To Go Far…

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 →

Financing Update: Leaning In, Slowing Down, and Doing the Work

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 →

« Older posts Newer posts »

© 2026 — Powered by Create a website or blog at WordPress.com

Theme by Anders Noren — Up ↑