A lab for hard, foundational problems. Built patiently, in private, until there's something real to show.
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droninghead is a quiet workshop for hard technology.
The belief is simple: the most durable companies begin in a laboratory, not a pitch deck. The work is to recognise them early and help them find their footing. Everything else can wait until there's something worth showing.
Deep tech investor and builder.
I've been a salesperson, a journalist, a systems architect, a software developer, a CTO and an entrepreneur-in-residence. None of it was planned. Each role just happened to teach me something the next one turned out to need.
I like hard problems, and I tend to follow my curiosity further than is sensible. My best work has always come out of rooms where people don't all think the same way.
These days I run a deep tech fund. I back founders who start with the science, the ones building companies that could change how the world runs, and spend the rest of my time helping startups and larger organisations think through design, product and technology.
A small portfolio, placed early and held with patience.
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up whenever you felt like it.J.D. Salinger · The Catcher in the Rye
No book by that name on this shelf, yet.
Deep tech and life, trying to make sense of both. Published on Substack.