About Ted

Hello 👋 and thanks for stopping by. This is where I hang out online and share insights and lessons I’ve learned (and some pictures 🖼️ too, scroll down).

Why?

Because of you 🤟.

I enjoy helping people be great. And I enjoy helping people build great things—whether a startup business, a technical product, themselves as leaders, or even building a family! And double bonus if you’re in the mobility industry or passionate about Detroit.

#FamilyFirst. My family is my life and top of my Life Plan. I do what I do for them.

On this blog I share insights and thoughts from connecting the dots, identifying patterns, and breaking down the complex. My goal is to share knowledge that can be put to good use.

My insights and lessons learned come from a variety of work and life experiences including:

Investing in over 50 startups around the world
Raising 3 kids under the age of 3 with my wife
Founding and running the longest running mobility startup accelerator program in the world
Relocating from San Francisco to Detroit
Helping to establish the Detroit startup community
Being a CTO and co-founder of a successful startup
Developing open source software for over a decade
Designing my own computer engineering and entrepreneurship degree at Cornell University
Becoming a 3rd Degree member of the Knights of Columbus
Earning the Silver-Palmed Eagle Scout distinction
Growing up as the oldest of 4 kids in a military family
Working on and club racing my BMW M3
Reviewing 100s of wines on Twitter
Overcoming my own health issues around burnout, anxiety, and depression

If there’s a topic you’d like me to cover, send me a note. I’d be delighted to hear from you!

My first love, my 1997 BMW M3 Estoril 4 Door. I've tracked the car and nearly rebuilt the engine. More posts on that here.

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