Built on failure. Optimized for action.

Version:Next explores how high achievers rebound and become successful after everything falls apart. I created this podcast to share what I’ve learned over the last decade a long, humbling, meaningful journey of rebuilding from almost nothing.

Before my world collapsed, I built a career on Wall Street, executing billions of dollars in trades and managing a $300 million public and private equity portfolio. I lived inside elite financial systems, surrounded by founders, operators, and investors who shaped the modern economy.

I walked into the Southern District of New York to defend my name. I became the first and only person ever to beat U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, breaking his 85–0 conviction streak in insider-trading cases. A jury acquitted me.

But winning didn’t give me my life back.

By the end of the trial, I was financially drained, professionally blacklisted, and rebuilding from below zero. That moment not the indictment, not the acquittal became the true beginning of my story.

For the next eleven years, I lived the real, unglamorous work of reinvention: failed ventures, stalled ideas, small wins, big losses, sleepless nights, good and bad days, and countless attempts to become someone new again.

I’ve made a lot of money.
I’ve lost a lot of money.
I’ve built companies that succeeded and many that didn’t.
Rebuilding isn’t linear. It’s a process of creation a new version of yourself, refining it, and improving at every opportunity

I co-founded the women’s health website Healplace.com, an AI-driven wellness platform with my wife, Manisha. I launched Reservato.ai, an AI yield-management system that helps restaurants maximize revenue. Through Cinnamon Advisors, I advise companies and sovereign institutions on digital transformation, capital strategy, and AI integration.

I even designed a patent-pending programmable blockchain lottery system, not because I needed another project, but to prove to myself I could still build.

But the most meaningful work came from the darkest chapter of my life.

For years, I served on the board and executive committee of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project, helping exonerate more than forty innocent people. When you’ve sat in the defendant’s chair, justice becomes deeply personal.

Through every version of myself trader, defendant, founder, husband, father one question kept coming back:

How do some people build back up better when their world collapses… and why do others stay down?

What separates people who rise from those who don’t? Is it mindset? Environment? Identity? A moment of luck? A decision? A belief?

What do they discover in the dark that later becomes their advantage?

Version:Next isn’t about highlight reels. It’s about the truth behind reinvention the decisions, frameworks, heartbreaks, and breakthroughs that create the next version of who we become.

Because every success has a broken version underneath it.

Let’s figure it out together.