Hello, I'm Charles
Dad, husband, traveler, and a builder who can't sit still.
This is my personal corner of the internet. I write about the places we drag our kids to, the things I'm thinking through, and the projects I build on nights and weekends. If you're here for work, my professional home lives at NextRoot Ventures.
Travel
Notes from the road
Nothing published yet.
Read the travel journalsBlog
Essays and half-formed thoughts
Nothing published yet.
Read the blogPassion work
Things I'm building
Three projects I care about, each one started because I wanted it to exist.
NextRoot Ventures
My professional home. Advising founder-led teams on go-to-market, revenue, and the messy middle between product and sales.
nextrootventures.comCozy Home Partners
Buying and thoughtfully renovating homes. Part design obsession, part spreadsheet, entirely a weekend habit that got out of hand.
cozyhomepartners.comRoofolio
An operating system for rental investors, bringing property search, deal analysis, and portfolio operations into one workflow.
roofolio.aiAbout
A little more about me
I grew up an engineer, started my career writing C++ for embedded systems, and somehow ended up spending most of it in front of customers. I've built and led go-to-market teams at Google, LinkedIn, HackerRank, and Blind, and now I just vibecode for fun.
These days I live in the San Francisco Bay Area with my wife and our two kids. We travel whenever school lets us, I renovate houses when I should be resting, and I write to figure out what I actually think. I took a sabbatical year that reset how I approach basically everything, and a lot of what's on this site came out of it.
If you want the resume version of me, that lives at NextRoot Ventures.