“Hello”

You most probably have never heard of me, but there’s a good chance you’ve used something my work helped start.

For more than thirty years I’ve helped bring to life foundational digital systems: online payments, streaming video, mobile applications, social economies, on-device data ownership, often years before they became everyday tools.

The work spanned the web, mobile, and the physical world, across more than sixty countries, alongside people from many backgrounds. The details change, the intention does not: put more power, value, and opportunity in the hands of individuals, not the middlemen and institutions standing between them. I’ve seen a lot of what is under the hood and know it can work harder for us.

Three decades taught me one thing above all. Technology doesn’t decide the future. People do.

My internet career began under the promise that the internet would distribute power; more to the maker, more to the user, less to the gatekeeper. Some of that happened. Much of the opposite did. “Free” became surveillance. “Open” became algorithmic control.

The middleman didn’t go away; he became Mayor.

Now AI arrives at the same fork, with tools we’d barely imagined a few years ago, asking the same question: will it hand power to people, or concentrate it further?

In 2024 I closed the career I began in 1994 to take that question on directly. A single goal: our better future. Humans in control of our data, our money, our identity, with a meaningful say in the rules we live by.

Everything we need to build a better future already exists. The obstacles that we face are nothing more than agreements we have unconsciously made or been given. And agreements can be rewritten.

You can change your mind whenever you are ready.

The challenge isn’t inventing what’s missing. It’s pointing what we already have in a better direction.

“I’m optimistic, not because I think technology will save us, but because I think motivated people still can.”