Mike De La Rosa
I'm building Despensa, a notebook for what you bring home from the farmers market. I was the first hire at Thinking Basketball, which has grown from 60,000 subscribers to more than 800,000 since I joined. I also consult at Tamarisk Lane.
// Now
- Building Despensa on nights and weekends
- Advising at Thinking Basketball
- Consulting at Tamarisk Lane
- Cooking whatever was good at the market this week

Selected work
All work →- Despensa
A notebook for farmers market shopping — photograph your haul, log the farms you bought from, and get asked a few days later what you made with it.
- Thinking Basketball
Ben Taylor's channel, merging film study with statistics. I cold-emailed him from college and became the first hire, at roughly 60,000 subscribers — it's past 800,000 now.
- Tamarisk Lane
An investment and advisory firm working across sports, food, entertainment, and lifestyle.