Samples from Academia and PitchBook
My Writing Portfolio
The Origin
Summers growing up in Indiana held plenty of excitement - learning to ride my bike without training wheels; block parties with inflatable castles and lots of sugar; roaming the neighborhood with my best friends exploring the freedom of our endless curiosities.
That is, those joys were promised only after I finished my dictionary exercises. My father, always the academic, was determined that I earn my time off by putting time into my studies before I was allowed to galivant around the neighborhood.
Though I can remember a sense of understandable annoyance, an impatient child distracted from my summer joys by the toils of academia, that’s not the overriding feeling I remember. I remember enjoying the thrill of learning a new word, the imagination of trying to use it in a sentence, of exploring where syntax and structure could take my thoughts.
I’m grateful for my father’s insistence. I have no doubt that I would be as proficient a writer as I am today without his insistence that I work at the craft from a young age. It’s been a lifelong journey, one I aim to continue today through this very website. As this portfolio demonstrates, I’ve also been fortunate to write professionally and across a variety of academic topics that I am passionate about.
PitchBook Portfolio
During my time at PitchBook, I worked as an Emerging Technology Analyst, researching novel trends and technologies vying for private market capital.
2020 to 2022 was an extremely exciting time to be doing this work, with the private markets flush with capital as a result of COVID-oriented government stimulus.
It was also an excellent lesson in what excess looks like when you are in it. Plenty of bad ideas got funded, and I’ll admit even my own analysis was a bit too generous.
Below you’ll find a few snapshots of some of the work I was most proud of. I developed two new products for the PitchBook Institutional Research Group - Vertical Snapshots and Emerging Spaces Briefs. Each of these was an attempt to encapsulate emerging technologies or investment trends, the main difference being in scope. Emerging Spaces were targeted and concise, encompassing usually no more than 50 companies. Vertical Snapshots covered huge industries - Real Estate, Aerospace, Education - and provided a comprehensive overview of analysis, funding, and taxonomies. I’m proud that these products are still alive and well today in new and capable hands.
Due to limitations over IP, I can’t share the files directly on this site. Please do reach out if you would like to read further, I’d be happy to connect you.
Academic Portfolio
During my time at PitchBook, I worked as an Emerging Technology Analyst, researching novel trends and technologies vying for private market capital.
2020 to 2022 was an extremely exciting time to be doing this work, with the private markets flush with capital as a result of COVID-oriented government stimulus.
It was also an excellent lesson in what excess looks like when you are in it. Plenty of bad ideas got funded, and I’ll admit even my own analysis was a bit too generous.
Below you’ll find a few snapshots of some of the work I was most proud of. I developed two new products for the PitchBook Institutional Research Group - Vertical Snapshots and Emerging Spaces Briefs. Each of these was an attempt to encapsulate emerging technologies or investment trends, the main difference being in scope. Emerging Spaces were targeted and concise, encompassing usually no more than 50 companies. Vertical Snapshots covered huge industries - Real Estate, Aerospace, Education - and provided a comprehensive overview of analysis, funding, and taxonomies. I’m proud that these products are still alive and well today in new and capable hands.
Due to limitations over IP, I can’t share the files directly on this site. Please do reach out if you would like to read further, I’d be happy to connect you.