I didn't come to this from politics. I came to it from a business and economic point of view — and a conversation with two friends.
I'm a tech entrepreneur. I founded eAdviser, a C-corp built on a simple bet: small businesses needed trusted information from verified experts more than they needed another open social platform. We invested almost a million dollars building a three-sided marketplace — channels, experts, learners. Alongside that, I built Global Classroom, a company that does two things. It certifies the teachers who walk into K-12 schools across America and teach English to the children of immigrants — the kids America said it wanted, taught by teachers America said it needed. And for over a decade, it has served as the education partner of America's SBDC, educating thousands of small business owners across the country. That partnership opened the door to revenue agreements with Microsoft and Google to deliver training on their products.
Earlier in my career, I co-founded another education technology company and was awarded two U.S. patents for online learning — one for the underlying technology, one for the process. The records are public.
This isn't my first hard climb. In the early 1990s, I bought a retail fixture company called MODE — a stock transaction in which I assumed all liabilities, including the ones nobody knew about yet. We built out stores for Walmart Vision Centers, for Kinko's (where I first met Paul Orfalea, who would later become a partner at Epic Learning), and for Starbucks. Two years in, defective laminate began failing on every Walmart Vision Center the previous owner had built. We sent our own crews to fix every one of them. We sued the manufacturer, Wilson Art. We won the lawsuit and paid the bank off — but the cost of doing right by Walmart's customers while we waited for the verdict had already pushed MODE into liquidation. By then, Epic Learning was already underway.
It's been a journey.
For years, I built inside the guardrails. I trusted the system to handle the layer above. Both parties said they cared about education. Both said they cared about immigration done right. Both said they cared about small business. So I kept building.
The Moment
Then I had two friends — fifty-year friendships, people who would have been called middle-of-the-road in any other generation — who voted far right in the last election. Not because they hated anything. Because of one issue: illegal immigration. And underneath that, a stack of others — the rich painted as villains, oil companies scapegoated for the climate crisis, overregulation strangling people who were just trying to work.
Here's what hit me: they probably agreed with most of what I believed. If you sat them down and explained the four pillars — environment, healthcare, education, immigration — in economic terms, in language that respected them as adults trying to provide for their families, they would nod. They are not the extremes. They are the majority.
But the majority has no microphone. The loudest voices on both sides have captured the megaphones, the parties, and the algorithms. So my friends — the majority — voted in the only direction that at least seemed to be listening to them on the one issue they couldn't ignore.
That was the moment.
What Actually Unites Us
Here is what I want people to understand: there are far more things that bring us together than divide us. TheMajority is a cultural shift, not a political party — and the shift is built on what we already share.
Every farmer in America needs immigrants. Red state, blue state, doesn't matter — the work doesn't get done without them. Every farmer has been crushed by the cost of healthcare. Every farmer has felt the bite of tariffs on the commodities they sell.
Every small business owner I have worked with over the past three decades — and through Global Classroom and the SBDC, I have worked with thousands — has faced the exact same challenges. The same payroll math. The same insurance bills. The same regulatory drag. The same need for willing workers.
A farmer in Iowa and a farmer in California already agree on three of the four pillars whether they know it or not. The same is true for the small business owner in Greenville and the small business owner in Portland.
That is the cultural shift. That is the work.
Why This Has to Be Bigger Than America
The more I sat with it, the more I saw the same pattern everywhere.
Travel to almost any country whose headlines are dominated by conflict, and you find that most ordinary people don't see themselves in those headlines. They want what every family wants: to take care of their kids, to work in an economy that lets them build a life, to live in a country whose loudest voices don't speak for them.
The majority is being silenced in a lot of places. That is why this has to be a global movement, not an American party.
What I'm Building
I am not a politician. I am an entrepreneur. I tried to do my work within the guardrails the system gave me, and I watched both ends push past those guardrails until people I love voted out of fear instead of belief.
So I'm pointing the same entrepreneurial instincts at the layer above.
TheMajority is a platform — and a movement — for the people who agree on more than the loud voices want them to know. We start in the United States. We scale across four pillars: environment, healthcare, education, immigration. And then we go where the silenced majority needs the same playbook — because if it works in America, it should travel.
I didn't plan to lead this. But somebody has to. And after forty years of building things that worked, I'm not willing to watch that country stop working.