The Journal
11 articles on entrepreneurship.
Before Atlantic Tech existed, most of my business education happened in the gaps of an ordinary workday. I was driving for Lyft, and whenever I had free time, I was online, looking for opportunities and trying to understand how people were building something of their own.
October 8, 2026 · 4 min read
When I was starting out, I'd say yes to nearly anything that kept the lights on. These days, choosing the right clients starts with one question: do I believe the product does what the brand says it does?
September 28, 2026 · 4 min read
Saying no to the wrong opportunities has shaped my company as much as saying yes to the right ones. Nobody asks entrepreneurs about the opportunities they turned down, mostly because there's no headline for a deal that didn't happen.
September 15, 2026 · 4 min read
Everyone told me my twenties were the years to move fast, take chances, and clean up the mess later. Nobody told me that speed and judgment aren't the same. I believed the countdown for a long time. I don't anymore.
September 10, 2026 · 4 min read
Peter Kazan on the filter he uses to decide what earns his attention as Atlantic Tech scales, and the meetings he no longer takes.
August 31, 2026 · 5 min read
Growing up, I never called it a leadership philosophy. It was just how things worked. You judged quality by whether something held up, not by how it looked the moment you first saw it. I think of it as exactly that now, and it has shaped nearly every decision I've made building a company.
August 17, 2026 · 4 min read
A revenue number, a headline, a milestone slide in a deck, none of those things carry meaning by themselves. They are just evidence that something happened. Whether that something mattered depends entirely on why you were building it in the first place.
August 4, 2026 · 4 min read
I've spent years building a company around data intelligence, and the biggest lesson has nothing to do with technology. It's about learning to listen before I act, in faith and in business.
July 30, 2026 · 4 min read
The standard playbook for a technology startup is well-documented. Raise fast, rent your tools, launch loud, fix the foundations later. I ignored most of it. I've built in ways the industry keeps calling unconventional, while my results keep getting called sensible.
July 19, 2026 · 4 min read
Most founders talk about culture. I talk about conviction. I'm the founder and CEO of Atlantic Tech, the data intelligence company I started in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 2020, and my faith isn't a value I put on a slide.
July 15, 2026 · 4 min read
Faith and business are often treated as separate rooms in the same house. In my experience, the house only stands when they share a foundation.
June 2, 2026 · 1 min read
