PSA: we recently launched the Prompt Perfect Chrome Extension.
I’m Charles, an entrepreneur and technologist.
About me
- From Long Island, NY.
- On the internet for >20 years (it feels like home).
- Studied in the North East and South East.
- Lived in Zambian village as a Peace Corps volunteer for >2 years without electricity.
- Home is New York City.
Some of my beliefs
- The internet is the most important invention in recent history because of the proliferation of information it enables.
- Honesty and pragmatism make for better friendships.
- Smiling is a universal language.
- Adrenaline and feeling uncomfortable are valuable.
- Driving is more fun than flying, and two wheels is better than four.
- Growth mindset > scarcity mindset.
- "Character is what you do when no one is looking.”
- “The unexamined life isn’t worth living.”
I’m currently making AI easier to use at Prompt Perfect, where I work on:
- product strategy and pricing:
- we’ve launched >5 consumer products with 5,000 paid customers in 150 countries.
- our most popular product has improved 1.45 million prompts for 1600,000 users.
- bookkeeping and accounting:
- we made >$115,000 in revenue year one.
- compliance and legal:
- wrote our legal documentation, and manage correspondence with the IRS, USPTO, and other state / federal /international agencies.
- partnerships and B2B consultations:
- corresponded with >250 companies;
- hosted paid consultations with 11;
- built custom tools for 6 small businesses, and 1 for Microsoft.
- product analytics:
- taught myself python to use BigQuery with our millions of data points.
- affiliate marketing campaigns:
- taught myself javascript to use Apps Scripts to automate email flows.
- customer support:
- corresponded with hundreds of customers.
Before Prompt Perfect:
- I was the first hire at a boutique sales agency working with emerging CPG brands, where I managed retail expansion for four brands in the Eastern United States.
- Before that I led business development for a small technical team building bespoke decentralized applications for different blockchain foundations.
- And the 5 years before were spent between the venture-backed SaaS startups Hopin, Stack Overflow, and Andela. I did many different things, from interviewing to instantiating CRMs, but most of my time was spent on sales teams in closing roles. By the end of that time I had closed Enterprise deals up to nearly $1M in ARR.
Other stuff I do:
- Investor and Board Member at Wise Bar, where we make delicious energy bars with functional adaptogens. wise-bar.com.
- Charity Director for the Meatball Parm Invitational golf tournament.
- Non-voting Board Member of the Kapona Community Resource Center in Zambia.