Here’s my backstory of how I got into the world of digital assets.

Websites

I started learning SEO back in 2012 and applied to my first online business, a print-on-demand shopify store which I sold on Empire Flippers in 2016.

I didn’t enjoy the customer support however, so focussed on affiliate and promoting software products and built and sold Funnel Engine in 2018 for six figures.

Podcasts & Communities & Newsletters

I then starting building media assets such as Flipping Websites, a podcast and facebook group which I sold to what became Investors Club in 2019.

In 2020 I built a paid substack about website investing which I sold to Travis Jamison for six figures (PR). We turned this into the paid investing.io community.

I then created another newsletter on Substack and a Discord community called Alts Cafe which I sold to Flippa and worked as Director, Investor Community for six months (PR).

I then started building newsletters on beehiiv, and sold two to Scott Oldford at Wisdom Media (PR), and got the opportunity to invest in beehiiv at their Series A round.

Domains

I got into domaining back in 2020 during lockdown, from discovering excellent domain podcasts such as Domain Sherpa and also one by Josh Reason at the time.

I invited Josh onto my Website Investing podcast and learned about how to buy at wholesale value, and sell at retail value at 10x the price.

I started purchasing domains, using tools such as ExpiredDomains.net , at GoDaddy Auctions and also hand registering domains such as lightweight.co for $130 which I sold on the brand marketplace Squadhelp for $999.

My best sale to date was hand registering shiny.gg and selling for $10K on Dan.com.

Crypto & NFTs

I first bought Bitcoin back in 2016 and caught the altcoin run up in 2017 before selling everything at the start of 2018.

Over 3 years went by, where I was focussed back on online business, until March 2021 when the price of Ethereum started to rise again.

I'd been out of the market for so long that I felt the need to reeducate myself, so what better way than subscribing to a paid Substack (like the one I had sold) called Bankless.

I got in at just the right time as I minted a free NFT badge (my first NFT mint) that got me their $BANK token drop and access to their DAO - a decentralized media organisation.

I then went super deep into media DAOs, earning tokens by contributing to their newsletters and blogs and earning bounties.

My first purchase of an NFT was a Lazy Lion in August of 2021 and that, combined with a series of Domain Sherpa NFT focussed podcasts called Down The Rabbit Hole, got me into purchasing a Mutant Ape for 4 ETH in October 2021 which I flipped for 8 ETH a few months later.

My best trade was minting a Moonbird for 2.5 ETH and selling at 21 ETH, although it also feels like my worst trade as I should have sold between 30-40 ETH. Learned a hard lesson on this one about taking profits.

In August of 2023 I started buying Solana, and in October 2023 I went to the Solana Breakpoint conference (did a write up here).

Present Day

Now I run this newsletter and my paid private community Patey Club on Skool - it’s capped at 150 members (Dunbar’s number).

And I run the Digital Asset Investor newsletter and free Skool community for those interested in buying and selling websites, domains, newsletters, communities and more.

Ok that’s enough from me, come follow me on Twitter or Linkedin.

Cheers!