VIDEO: RPMWEST Perfect Jeans, Delivered (by my best friend)

manuel rappard
launched his kickstarter campaign
for his new jean line, RPMWEST.

in many ways,
manuel and i grew up together
young 20-year-olds
turning it in NYC.

after graduating stern NYU,
moving to SF,
crushing it at Google,
then venturing out,
manuel has gone back to something
that has been … Read this post

May 1, 2001: The Day I Became A Teen Magician & The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

magician

the photo above is of me
at age 14
doing a magic trick
for my friend maxx.

i was a freshman in high school
when the local newspaper
wrote about how i was being scouted
by the tonight show with jay leno
as one of the youngest teen magicians
in … Read this post

The Plight of an Entrepreneur: Inside… Out

Jake blog

before the success
before the validation
from peers and others…

before the fanfare
before the acceptance
before the fame
that becomes so bright
that it burns a scar on you–
before all of that,
there is a restlessness
a rowdiness
a desire to win
a curiosity
so massive and so … Read this post

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