Media
Interviews, press and conversations on building profitable companies: organic growth, acquisitions and value creation. If you run an MSP or a B2B services business, read the older coverage for the pattern, not the category: demand built where paid ads were banned, growth bought instead of rented, and margins fixed before scale. It is the same playbook I run in B2B today.
Current thinking
The MSP and B2B chapter is documented on my own channels for now. If you run a services business and are thinking about growth, exits or roll-ups, start here.
On YouTube
All videos →Play It Smart, the podcast I host
All episodes →Podcast interviews
This Investment Banker "Accidentally" Built a 7-Figure Agency in 2 Years
The full arc: leaving investment banking, building the marketplace, and turning the in-house growth engine into NUOPTIMA, a 7-figure agency, in two years. The most current picture of how I think about B2B growth.
Agencies vs. Products + What Happened in the Amazon Aggregator Space?
Why agencies beat products for cash flow, and a candid post-mortem on the Amazon aggregator wave from someone who operated through it.
Winning E-commerce With a Long-Term Mindset
Why we chose compounding SEO over renting traffic from ad platforms, and how a long-horizon mindset changes acquisition math.
DTC Supply Chain, Distribution and Social Proof
Operating brands, not just marketing them: acquisition criteria, supply chain anatomy and what social proof actually does for conversion.
Brand Acquisition and Scaling
The buy-side playbook: sourcing deals in niche markets, profitability before growth, and what makes a small brand worth acquiring.
Growing an E-commerce Marketplace When Paid Ads Are Banned
The constraint that shaped everything: no Google or Meta ads allowed in the category, so SEO and content became the entire traction engine.
Press coverage
These pieces cover Alphagreen Group, the consumer marketplace in my portfolio, and the years spent building it.
My Ecommerce Hero: Alexej Pikovsky, CEO of Alphagreen Group
Profile on solving payments and logistics in a category most providers refuse to touch.
→ 2021 Entrepreneur HandbookInterview: from investment banking and PE to founder
The path from athlete to banker to building a marketplace from scratch.
→ 2021 TechRoundBuilding a trust-first marketplace in a low-trust category
How a marketplace fixes an industry's information problem, and scaling through the pandemic.
→ 2021 Authority Magazine5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started Leading a Business
Team quality, fundraising strategy and the lessons that came the expensive way.
→ 2022 Grit DailyPortfolio strategy in niche wellness verticals
Why owning efficient positions in niche verticals beats trying to "disrupt" a category.
→ 2022 SalesTechStarWhat E-Commerce Aggregation Means for the Amazon Ecosystem
Guest analysis of the aggregator wave and what it signalled for brand M&A.
→Talking points I can actually add value on
B2B growth for MSPs and services businesses, SEO and AI search (GEO), buying and integrating small companies, and bootstrapping with founder-friendly capital. Message me on LinkedIn for bio, headshots and availability.