For founders building something new

Helping founders figure out what’s next.

I work alongside founder-led startups — helping turn ideas into momentum through positioning, storytelling, partnerships, community, and practical execution.

Hand-drawn illustration: a founder's notebook emerging from an envelope, sketching the journey from idea to question to experiment to momentum.

Why Push The Envelope?

Most startups aren’t looking for a playbook.
They’re exploring new territory.
Push The Envelope helps founders navigate it — testing ideas,
sharpening the story, and building momentum.

What I help with.

Starting points, not a fixed menu. Engagements flex by what’s most useful — from fractional leadership to advisory sprints to sleeves-up collaboration.

Go-to-Market Strategy

Positioning, messaging, and launches built for the real world.

Founder & Company Storytelling

Turning ideas into stories people can understand and rally behind.

Partnerships & Ecosystem Growth

Building partnerships that create momentum, distribution, and growth.

Fractional Marketing Leadership

Strategic thinking, practical execution, and whatever helps move the next thing forward.

Community & Audience Growth

Building communities, audiences, and momentum from the ground up.

AI & Emerging Tech Positioning

Turning complex technologies into stories customers can understand.

Experience.

Experience across category-defining startups and global platforms — from mobile gaming and emerging-market social to AI, fintech, and ecommerce.

45M+ Users reached
4+ Continents operated across
7+ Category-defining companies
7+ Industries spanned

Faybl

Agentic AI for the next generation of wealth and investing.

AI / Fintech

Sanford Securities

One of Australia’s first online brokers; marketing and founder-side execution through IPO and acquisition.

Fintech

King · Candy Crush Saga

Global mobile gaming at category-defining scale.

Gaming

mig33 / migme

One of the first mobile social networks, reaching millions across emerging markets.

Mobile / Social

AMA New York

New York’s flagship marketing community.

Community

Amazon Pay

Payments and commerce at global platform scale.

Ecommerce

New York · San Francisco · London · Singapore · Perth · Sydney

Approach.

Less playbook, more partnership. Built for ambiguity, optimised for momentum — whatever shape the engagement takes.

Curious, not prescriptive.

I start with questions, not templates. Every company is its own puzzle — the work begins by understanding it.

Embedded, not external.

Sleeves up alongside the team. Less reporting, more doing — treating your goals as my own.

Momentum over polish.

Clarity and motion beat perfection. Ship, learn, adjust — especially in ambiguous categories.

Flexible by need.

Fractional lead, advisor, or hands-on collaborator — whatever helps push the next thing forward.

Best fit: founder-led teams building something new — who need help figuring out what’s next, turning ideas into momentum, and moving the next thing forward.

Contact

Building something interesting?

If you’re building something new, exploring an idea, or figuring out what’s next, I’d love to hear about it.