I’m Charles, an entrepreneur and technologist. Most of my time is spent working on a consumer-application that helps people use ChatGPT. Please email montieferg at gmail with questions.
About me
- From Long Island.
- On the world wide web for 20 years.
- Former Peace Corps volunteer.
- Home is New York City.
Current work
- Cofounder at Prompt Perfect, where Erich and I make AI easier to use (Erich's Twitter / X and LinkedIn).
- My role includes:
- Product analytics, strategy, and pricing.
- Bookkeeping and accounting.
- Compliance and legal.
- Partnerships and B2B services.
- Customer support.
- Prompt Perfect links:
Previous work
- First hire at a boutique sales agency working with emerging CPG brands, where I managed regional retail expansion for four clients.
- Before that I led business development for a small technical team building decentralized applications for blockchain foundations.
- Spent 5 years before between the startups Hopin, Stack Overflow, and Andela with various roles, from interviewing to instantiating CRMs. Mostly I was on sales teams in new-business closing roles.
Other projects
- Investor and Board Member at Wise Bar, where we make delicious energy bars with functional adaptogens.
- Charity Director for the Meatball Parm Invitational golf tournament.
- Non-voting Board Member of the Kapona Community Resource Center in Zambia.
- Cohost of The Blue Hour podcast for 37 episodes in 2023, with Erich.
Interests
- Snowboarding, surfing, and golfing.
- Music and motorcycles.
Beliefs
- The internet is the most important invention in recent history because of the proliferation of information it enables.
- Smiling is a universal language.
- Adrenaline and feeling uncomfortable are valuable.
- Possibility > scarcity.
- "Character is what you do when no one is looking.”
- “The unexamined life isn’t worth living.”