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Rob's Journey

Most engineers learn to code first, and spend years learning business the hard way after. Rob did it backwards—and that's his superpower.

Rob started in business school at UNC Wilmington, winning three major competitions including the 2015 Business Plan Competition. But he didn't want to just study business—he wanted to understand how money really moves.

At Seahawk Innovation Fund as a VC Associate, he spent two years analyzing deals, building financial models, and learning what makes investors write checks. After seeing hundreds of pitches, he understood why most fail: great tech with no business model, or great business model with no technical execution.

As Product Manager at Sportgait, he shipped HIPAA-compliant medical applications, learning how to translate user needs into technical requirements and navigate complex regulatory environments.

Co-founding Lykewyze brought it all together. The team built an AI-powered social lead generation system that delivered 200+ qualified leads per month to legal and healthcare clients. After raising $900k and hiring a team, Rob learned the hardest lesson: ideas are worthless without technical execution.

So he learned to code. Not just dabbling—deep, production-level engineering. Web3 protocols, full stack web applications, complex backend architectures, and algorithmic trading tools.

Today, Rob uses AI to combine everything he's learned. He architects like a CTO, prioritizes like a PM, thinks like a founder, and codes like a senior engineer—all at 10x speed.