Everything, dated and sourced, working backward
What I Handed the President
The Maker Faire, the letter from a hundred and fifty universities, and why being trusted at twenty-two is the part I think about.
Read →Two World Records, and I Never Met Either of Them
A marathon run on crutches a week after an ACL tear, and 1,129.8 pounds off a bench. Neither man worked for me.
Read →The 75 Percent: What We Actually Measured
The rig, the method, the statistics, and the line where the number stops being true.
Read →
AmazonEarned Attention
A book for creators, founders, and thinkers tired of performing for algorithms.
ISBN 9798319377326 →YG3 co-founded
The marketing department you don’t have to hire. Different category, same instinct. I’m the COO.
yg3.ai →USD1010834 granted: Joint stabilization knee sleeve
The most recent grant. Four product lines: crutch, sock, knee sleeve, elbow sleeve.
The full portfolio →AmazonThe Elements: A Philosophical Look At Entrepreneurship
Written in 2016. The worldviews I was working out in my early twenties.
ASIN B0BKP8817G →Carole Moore McLeod Entrepreneur Summit
Also the SFIA Industry Leaders Summit that year.
Full speaking record →A powerlifter bench pressed 1,129.8 pounds in Lasso socks
The second world record set on something I built. He didn’t work for us.
The story →Best Compression Socks, Men’s Health Fitness Awards
Six months later Greatist ranked Lasso the number one running sock overall.
USD905257 granted: Joint stabilization sock
One of four design patents granted that year across sock, knee sleeve, and elbow sleeve.
The full portfolio →USD895815 granted: Joint stabilization elbow sleeve
The fourth product line. The compression pattern carried from the ankle to the elbow.
The full portfolio →$600,000 bridge round, and an NFL Hall of Fame cornerback joins the board
He came on as Head of Athlete Relations. By then the socks were in use by hundreds of professional athletes across the NFL, NBA, MLS, and MLB.
Lasso launches
Ankle taping built into a sock. Ten minutes and a trainer became four seconds and a drawer. In a rig we built ourselves it reduced ankle deflection by more than 75 percent against a standard athletic sock.
What we actually measured →A runner completed the New York City Marathon on our crutches in 6:19:21
A week after tearing his ACL and MCL. He beat the previous mark of 6:24:48. He didn’t work for us. He used the thing and it held.
The story →On stage in Taipei
TRANSHS. I wrote a post afterward called “What I Learned in Taipei.”
Forbes Under 30 Summit
Also Morehouse College, TiECON Southeast, and the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute that year.
Full speaking record →A new step for crutches
2:51.
ELLE.com, 41 Most Eligible Bachelors, #7
$450,000 Series A
Roughly $600,000 raised to date.
Forbes 30 Under 30, Manufacturing & Industry
I found out from a tweet. I wrote at the time that it felt like how I imagine Dwyane Wade felt in 2006.
forbes.com →Presented the crutch to President Obama at the first White House Maker Faire
Georgia Tech was one of three schools in the country, with Stanford and MIT, invited to send a student project. Ours was the one they sent. I also handed the President a 3D-printed letter on behalf of 150 universities committing to the Maker movement. I was twenty-two.
The full story →Student Entrepreneur of the Year, TiECON Southeast
Also a finalist in the Georgia Tech InVenture Prize.
inventureprize.gatech.edu →Zero to 510 accelerator, Memphis
One of six companies selected. First outside capital. $50K initial, $100K on completion.
Better Walk founded
I broke my ankle playing basketball and spent six weeks on crutches, a design nobody had meaningfully improved in five thousand years. Two Georgia Tech classmates and I built one that moves the load off the armpit and onto the forearm.
Ventures →