Building Since Day One
Some people decide to start a business. Andrew just kept doing what he'd always done, and eventually people started calling it that.
Childhood
His sister had a cookie company. Andrew grabbed a handful and started selling them himself. No business plan. No permission. Just a kid who saw an opportunity and took it before anyone could explain why he shouldn't.
High School
One of the first kids who could burn CDs and knew where to find good music. He made mix CDs and sold them. The supply chain was a CD burner and taste. The demand was every other kid in school.
College Years
Bought and resold products online. Then went further: sourced parts directly from China for a side business while still in school. The typical college hustle, except with international supply chains.
Charlottesville
Involved with HackCville, the business incubator in Charlottesville. The kind of place where you're surrounded by people building things, and the energy is contagious. A formative environment for what came next.
Washington, D.C.
Been to most of the major DC incubators. But not as a spectator. Andrew volunteered to help businesses before they launched: designing websites, shaping concepts, bringing ideas to life for people who had the vision but needed the execution.
Icarus, Dave Johnson, Motivation by Megan, Nutrition by Megan Smith, and others.
First Company
iFixt was the first real company. Andrew served as COO, building operations from the ground up. Not a side project. Not a freelance gig. A company with a team, customers, and the kind of problems you only encounter when something is actually working.
He made an exit. The kind of outcome that validates the path and makes the next thing possible. Everything before was practice. iFixt was proof.
COO
Successful Exit
Current Venture
Built from the desire to make the divorce process less brutal. The legal system treats mediation like a formality. Andrew is treating it like a product problem: reduce friction, increase transparency, and give people a path through one of the hardest experiences of their lives without destroying each other in the process.
Mediation.App is currently in development. The approach combines technology with empathy in a space that has very little of either. It's the kind of company that only exists because someone who understands both design and complex systems decided the status quo was unacceptable.
In Development
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