Hello, I'm Charles
Dad, husband, traveler, and a builder who can't sit still.
This is my personal corner of the internet. I write about the places we drag our kids to, the things I'm thinking through, and the projects I build on nights and weekends. If you're here for work, my professional home lives at NextRoot Ventures.
Passion work
Things I'm building
Three projects I care about, each one started because I wanted it to exist.
NextRoot Ventures
My professional home. Advising founder-led teams on go-to-market, revenue, and the messy middle between product and sales.
nextrootventures.comCozy Home Partners
Buying and thoughtfully renovating homes. Part design obsession, part spreadsheet, entirely a weekend habit that got out of hand.
cozyhomepartners.comRoofolio
An operating system for rental investors, bringing property search, deal analysis, and portfolio operations into one workflow.
roofolio.aiBlog
Essays and half-formed thoughts
Nothing published yet.
Read the blogTravel
Notes from the road
Nothing published yet.
Read the travel journalsAbout
A little more about me
I grew up an engineer, started my career writing C++ for embedded systems, and somehow ended up spending most of it in front of customers. I've built and led go-to-market teams at Google, LinkedIn, HackerRank, and Blind, and now I just vibecode for fun.
These days I live in the San Francisco Bay Area with my wife and our two kids. We travel whenever school lets us, I renovate houses when I should be resting, and I write to figure out what I actually think. I took a sabbatical year that reset how I approach basically everything, and a lot of what's on this site came out of it.
If you want the professional version of me, that lives at NextRoot Ventures.