The Timeline
From a bedroom game-server business to a 200K+ investor network — the milestones in between, decade by decade.
22
Years Building
9+
Ventures Founded
15
Age At First Company
00s
The Beginning
2003
Starts a 10-year journey that would shape how he leads teams and projects for the next two decades.
2004
JBServers & Affiliated Brands
A freshman in high school, builds a game-server hosting business and commissions a custom web platform for clients to manage their own servers.
Origin Story
2007
Leads a project building a concrete compass rose above the Laguna Niguel YMCA with 20+ volunteers.
2007 – 2011
Operations Management Information Systems, Minor in Entrepreneurship
Applies lessons from venture capital professors directly to the businesses he'd already founded in high school.
10s
Building In Public
2010
Launches 25+ web properties reaching 7M+ visitors in 200 countries, and secures a publicity partnership with Intel.
2013
Co-founds a mobile marketing platform and builds its philanthropic arm, giving nonprofits access to text and voice broadcast tools.
2014
Launches the accelerator and digital marketing firm that would become the foundation for everything after — investor relations, startup acceleration, and brand strategy under one roof.
Turning Point
2015
National Capital Alliance
Co-founds a lending and capital connection platform for small and medium-sized businesses.
2016
What starts as an investor network grows into live pitch events and conferences connecting entrepreneurs to angel investors, VCs, private equity, and family offices around the world.
Turning Point
20s
The Network Era
2018 – 2024
Investor events expand across California, New York, D.C., and beyond — hosting hundreds of investors and founders per event.
2024 – 2025
GCN's investor-matching mobile platform goes live on iOS and Android, putting the network in people's pockets.
2026 — Now
GCN's network spans 60+ cities and $100B+ in capital reach. What started as one teenager's game-server business is now a global investor network — and it's still growing.
Present
If you're building something, raising capital, or just want to talk shop — that's usually how the next chapter starts.
Work With Josh
Connecting investors to global world-changing entrepreneurs. Tech entrepreneur, angel investor, media strategist.
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