As a passionate entrepreneur, John has extensive experience creating and building multiple software companies. He is now dedicating his time and expertise to co-creating and investing in SaaS companies. His latest venture, FutureSight is a venture studio committed to building the next generation of world-class companies, bringing together brilliant minds and ideas, changing the world one venture at a time. John’s previous ventures include Intrafinity, CivicLive, Talentova, and SharpSchool.
The article, part of a "wanting well" series, uses gardening as a metaphor to explore personal wholeness through emotional self-exploration. It highlights Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, which helps integrate different aspects of the psyche...
In this article, I explore the second step of the journey towards self-leadership discussing the significance of wanting from wounds. I reflect on the multitude of losses that have shaped my life and examine how these wounds influence behavior and...
Have you ever asked why you want what you want?
“The problem of our age is…” Is what? Putting aside the wish that there were only one problem of our age, how would you finish that statement? In 1889, Andrew Carnegie opened his respected “Gospel of Wealth” essay with this answer: “The problem of...
“Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.” ~Simon Sinek “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. …but not so...
This article is the first in a series exploring new approaches to venture creation. “What should be the right level of profit?” is a question few people have asked in the boardroom. The assumption underlying most business plans and decisions...
This is the second article in a series exploring new approaches to venture creation. In the first article in this series, I introduced the concepts of the Economics of Mutuality in which a business seeks to earn profit while attempting to solve...
Ten years ago, one of my newly hired software developers asked me why I hated her. When I asked her why she felt that way, she told me, “Whenever you walk by my desk, you are frowning and look so angry.” Her strong feelings surprised me because...
If you are building a home, you hire a contractor, not a landscaper. If you are adding a retaining wall, then you hire a landscaper—but not a software developer. We know that a business’s purpose is to solve certain problems or...
My seven year old son loves math. The majority of his time is spent doing math problems on the computer, quizzing his family on new math problems he created, falling asleep at night after reading math books, and attending the Russian School of Math...
