Moving on from Perch

After nearly 10 years, I'm moving on from Perch.

30 million sets captured. 300+ of the world's most elite teams. 5,000+ devices in weight rooms across the globe. Numbers I genuinely couldn't have imagined when Jordan, Nate and I were building early prototypes in a college fraternity.

The numbers aren't what I'll carry with me though. It's the people. The teammates who bet on this thing when it was just an idea. The customers who trusted us with their athletes before we had any right to ask for that trust. The relationships that started as professional and became something much more personal.

This ride was not always smooth. There were moments I wasn't sure we were going to make it. Moments where the weight of it all was genuinely hard to carry. I grew through every single one of them in ways I didn't expect and couldn't have planned for.

Here's what I know now that I didn't know then: building something real, with people you respect, in service of something that actually matters, is one of the great privileges of a life. I got to do that for ten years.

Perch is in extraordinary hands. Jordan is carrying the mission forward, and the Catapult team has embraced everything we built with a care and seriousness that makes leaving feel okay. More than okay, actually — truly excited for what Catapult and the Perch team can accomplish together.

Despite all the progress and impact we've made, I know Perch is still in the early innings of what it will bring to coaches and athletes around the globe.

To everyone who was part of this journey, thank you. Genuinely.

Now I'm taking some time off. My wife and I are expecting our first daughter in April, and I want to be present for that in a way that a founder operating at full speed can't be. There will be plenty of time to figure out what comes next.

That said, I'm always looking to connect. If you're working on something interesting or think I might be useful to you in some way, reach out. Genuinely happy to talk.

On to whatever comes next. 🙏

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