How I Built a Profitable Business: The Flux Chargers Story
From selling chargers on Santa Monica streets to $100k+/month in 91 countries — the unit-economics, distribution
From selling chargers on Santa Monica streets to $100k+/month in 91 countries — the unit-economics, distribution
A 2016 memoir of Flux Ventures — the holding company I built out of UCLA. Flux is no longer operational; today I run Pickleland and build AI agent systems.
Sales fundamentals from street selling to consultative and AI-assisted selling: mindset, pitch mechanics, social proof, and closing
The 80/20 rule still drives everything. Add AI-assisted workflows, async-first communication, and ruthless task triage to run a business, ship content
Updated for AI Search (May 2026) TL;DR: SEO in 2026 still rewards the fundamentals — a clean site, strong internal links, content that answers the query
Alexa.com shut down in May 2022. This post explains what replaced it and how to measure and grow your site's authority and traffic in 2026 using Similarweb