Hi, I'm Doug.

I'm a student at Ohio State graduating in May 2027. I like building things and selling them, and most of what I've done sits somewhere between the two.

I started with cold calling: hundreds of calls a week and a lot of practice hearing “no.” Since then I've built an AI newsletter that grew to 65+ subscribers, started an Instagram account that hit 25,000 views in a month, and launched Main Street Scales, where I now work with local businesses as a founder. Alongside that, I've worked in wealth management and portfolio analysis and ran the fund at TAMID.

What I love most is creative freedom and watching something go from nothing to real, start to finish, even when it takes trial and error over and over again.

Outside of work, I read a lot, mostly books about founders, CEOs and pioneers. Lately: Take It Personal by David Grutman, The Ride of a Lifetime by Bob Iger, and That Will Never Work by Marc Randolph.