about me

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.