Hi, I'm Jonathan.

I spent thirty years in Silicon Valley.

I worked at IBM. At Charles Schwab. Built startups. Had one acquired.

My job was always the same: find where things break. Where confusion lives. Where trust gets lost. Then remove the friction.

Somewhere along the way, I started seeing a pattern.

The most expensive thing in every system wasn't labor. It wasn't materials. It wasn't even mistakes.

It was distrust.

Every verification step. Every compliance layer. Every contract clause. Every lock on every door. That's the price we pay for not believing in each other.

So I started asking: what if we built systems that didn't require distrust to function?

The Trust Economy is thirty years of that question—answered.

I'm also a father of six.

That's not a footnote. It's the reason.

I'm not building this for an economic theory. I'm building it for them. For what they'll inherit. For what's possible if we get this right.

I live in California, in a region once called the Valley of Heart's Delight.

I'm still looking for it.