The digital playground of Garrett Winder.

I’m a lifetime maker, and for nearly two decades I’ve created, optimized and sold digital businesses—from co-founding a social media analytics platform that was acquired in 2010 to bootstrapping a web services company to $1.75m in annual revenue.

Currently, I’m building a tiny software studio called Better than Good, as well as collaborating on interesting ideas that solve challenging problems. I live in Fort Worth, Texas with my beautiful wife and our six kids.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved building things. It started as a kid with Legos, Lincoln Logs, Erector sets, models, rockets, robots—anything I could get my hands on. I was always taking things apart to understand how they worked and dissecting the world around me in my mind to try and figure out how everything fit together.

As I grew older, I spent a lot of time around computers. My dad always had the latest technology in the house, allowing me to tinker with nearly every popular computer and software from the late ‘80s through the 2000s. I’d get lost for hours figuring out how everything worked and what everything did.

In the early 2000s, I discovered Apple computers. I was immediately drawn to them and knew I had to have one. During a Christmas visit during high school to my dad in California, on a whim, he took me to the Apple Store in Palo Alto and bought me my first Apple computer: a 17” PowerBook G4. I was completely hooked.

That obsession turned into nearly twenty years of hands-on experience—from front-end development to operations management, from co-founding startups to building acquisition-worthy products, from working in England to creating businesses that scale without constant oversight.

I’m a jack of all trades, master of none most, and if coming up with cool stuff on a whiteboard was a sport, I’d be an olympian.

Fast forward to today, and this deep understanding and curiosity on how things work and exploring how they can be improved is what I do. I can see an idea through from ideation to completion. I can see the bottlenecks that are holding a business back both visually and systematically. I often can take a problem, run through countless scenarios, anticipate the chain reactions each choice might trigger, and find the best path forward—often with little hesitation.

Currently, I’m building Braindrop and a few other top secret ideas over at my software studio, Better than Good, and collaborating on interesting projects that solve challenging problems.

If you read this far then you’ve earned my contact information.

Send your thoughts, questions or ideas for a collaboration to my email address before the party parrot hypnotizes you.