About Me
I’m Andy Sommer. I live in Houston with my wife Morgan and our three kids.
In 2017 I started a handmade goods business that turned into Forth & Nomad, a 4,000-square-foot retail and cafe space. Then the pandemic hit. With our first kid on the way, I took a job at Monday.com because we needed the stability. I worked there for about four years. It was a good company. But in August 2024, I left to bet on myself again.
Now I run OffChance, a holding company for the brands and businesses I’m building. There are a few of them. Somco Capital is our commercial real estate arm, which owns two properties so far. RemoTeams is a staffing agency with half the team based in the Philippines. Domo is a 4,200-square-foot cafe that’s under construction right now after two years of loan negotiations. And Junto House is a co-working space inspired by Benjamin Franklin’s original Junto club, the one whose members went on to create the first lending library and fire department. I like running multiple things at once. I always have.
The through line is that I want to build businesses that fit how people actually want to live and work, and then own the real estate underneath them. I control both sides, which means investors can back the property, the brand, or both.
Morgan and I travel with our kids as much as we can. We’ve taken them to Tokyo, Bali, Bordeaux, Lisbon. Our daughter Remy caught a fever in France. Our son drove an electric jeep around a vineyard. It’s chaotic. We do this thing where we each get one night to ourselves per trip just to stay sane. But we’d rather they grow up seeing the world than hearing about it, so we keep going.
I write here about the stuff I’m working through: building companies, raising kids, eating well in Houston, figuring out how to make all of it fit together. If something I’ve learned saves you time or gives you a useful idea, that’s the whole point.
The best way to keep up is to follow me on Twitter/X, Instagram, or LinkedIn.
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Additional Social Profiles: For some other places that you can find my profile… check these spots, although I don’t use them as much: Tumblr, Blogger, GitHub, Medium, Behance, APSense, Issuu, About.me, Vimeo, Slideshare, Linktree, and Personal Websites.