Hey,I'm Bud.

Let's grab some tea

Tea first —² then the work and a few people who can vouch for it.

1. 
   01 · Heat

   There’s always a way in.

   My first marketing job came from a strange little trade. Five Super Nintendo games for a five-minute interview with GaryVee.³ I learned early that the non-obvious path is often the one worth trying.

   At Mercury, I’d bring that same instinct to finding stories and better ways to reach people making important decisions about their work and money.

2. 
   02 · Measure

   Good content needs the right conditions.

   At CXL, I managed the pieces that kept the content engine moving: freelancer relationships, the publishing calendar, editing, and the quality bar. At MoonPay, I was one of the first marketing hires and helped shape how content got made before there was a system to inherit.

   I can help Mercury strengthen the day-to-day operation of its educational content and build the systems that let it scale without losing what makes the work worth reading.

3. 
   03 · Pour

   Every reader needs a different pour.

   I’ve written for Schwab investors, CXL’s conversion practitioners, MoonPay’s first-time crypto buyers, and Shopify merchants. Different readers, same job: understand what they need, then say it plainly. For Schwab Crypto^™ and thinkorswim, that also meant writing for the investor skimming on a phone and the legal team reading line by line.

   That range would help Mercury turn complex business and finance topics into content people can use to make better decisions.

4. 
   04 · Savor

   This feels like my kind of place.

   Mercury feels like a place where curiosity is useful and quality is noticed. The tea ritual says something small but meaningful about the culture: the work matters, and so do the people making it.

   That is the kind of team I want to contribute to. I’d be excited to help Mercury make content people remember because it genuinely helped them.