Rockaway Capital

I joined Rockaway Capital as an investment analyst and spent my time with the investment team backing the firm's bets - public markets during the COVID era, and deep sector work when a theme needed more than a slide.

Public equities in that period were not abstract: you watched liquidity, drawdowns, and the gap between a thesis on paper and what the tape was doing week to week. It was a good place to learn how investors argue, stress-test, and disagree without pretending markets are polite.

The stint that stuck with me was a long research push on e-grocery across Europe - how the category was consolidating, who was actually winning on unit economics, and where a portfolio bet could make sense. That work did not stay in a deck; it is what opened the door to Košík, one of Rockaway's portfolio companies, and the path I took into product and growth there.

This overlapped with my early months at Košík as a data analyst - the research and the operator role fed each other rather than sitting in separate chapters.

Working with the investment team at Rockaway was an interesting chapter - more investor rhythm than operator rhythm, and a useful lens before I moved to the other side of the table.