Hi, I’m Dain!

I’m the creator of StartHereFM (educational media network), Createrly digital agency (sold), Midas (Government’s Kickstarter), co-founder of Midroll ($55m exit), open source coder, Department of State (Knowledge Leadership Division) Digital Innovation Consultant for 12+ Government Agencies, DoD/NRO contractor, former CTO @ IARPA.gov, Principal Developer @ Google, and a Presidential Innovation Fellow at The White House.

On the side from day jobs, in the past 10 years I've created a 1m+ person audience, created a best selling course, coached 50 people directly, and helped over 45 businesses grow top-line revenue 2x - 25x. Also for fun I learned how to run Paid Traffic (growing to $26,000/day in ad-spend), and learned how to do High Ticket sales (getting to $100k/month on a $5.5k product in first 3 months with no sales experience). I did those just for fun, because why not! 😍

Overall, as you can probably tell, I LOVE to challenge myself... but everything I do, I do it with a standard of HIGH PERFORMANCE. I've been able to uphold that standard in every area, business, career, or idea I've had... And nowdays I'm helping others build that habit into their life by becoming a High Performer themselves.

But let's move on to the more important things in life....

I'm a lover of Coffee, Walking, Being Outside, Toltec & Stoic Philosophy, the Ocean, & reading.

A few fun facts: I am one of the few people that LOVE the Star Wars Prequils, and I love Matrix 2 & 3! I've also LISTENED to the book Ready Player One like 45 times; it's one of my favorite books of all time.

As far as my TOP HOBBY in life (coding), I am in love with Ruby, Elixir, Erlang, R, and a fan of JavaScript, Julia, and Python.

I believe in something called "The Subconscious Learning Theory", and I use it to teach my clients and learn every new skill I learn. It just works. I've proved it works by being able to go from a Suicidal Heroin Addict to someone who has achieved more than most in a wide variety of fields and areas (while not being any smarter than the average person). This is something I want to study & write a dissertation about when I'm older, during a PhD candidacy, but first I'm on a mission to help 10 million people. Helping people comes first. I'll do the science later in life (following the Benjamin Franklin model).

I have ultra-long-term aspirations of creating the next Bell Labs, but first I need to gather enough money for an endevour like that. Regardless, I want to build the next major facility for Innovation in our world... an in the mean time I'm keeping sharp by studying disperate topics ("edge effect" - key to Innovation) such as Theoretical Physics, Atomic Physics, Graph Theory, Game Theory, Theoretical CS [Distributed Systems], Philosophy (modern+ancient), current Self-Dev, How-To, Fiction Ideas, and much more...

That's it for now. Hope that gives you a good snapshot into my brain.

Cheers

- Dain

PS - If you're reading this just wanted to let you know I really care and want you to succeed. I'm not perfect, and I've made mistakes, but the mistakes I make pale in comparison to my desire to help you all grow and put your dent in the Universe. Hope I can help you do that!