Snapshots
Stories about business, life, and the moments in between. Raw observations from the crossroads of East and West.
Stories
Dubai · Global
February 2026
The 2am WhatsApp Thread That Changed Everything
Most of my best deals started after midnight. There's something about the Gulf timezone overlap with the Americas that creates these windows where the real conversations happen.
Dubai, UAE
January 2026
86 Events Later: What I Actually Learned About Speaking
It's not about the stage. It's about the conversation that happens in the hallway after. Every event I've ever done, the value was in the margins.
Global
December 2025
Building in Public: Why I Started Venture Protocol
I didn't start a media company because I wanted to be a media person. I started it because the conversations I was having privately were too valuable to keep private.
Dubai, UAE