I'm currently living in San Francisco New York Los Angeles Austin Portland Honolulu Troy and working on something new ;).

I was previously at Pave, an HR software company helping companies make compensation more transparent. Before Pave, I spent time improving the mortgage experience at Blend, investing at Contrary Capital, learning from extremely smart individuals at 8VC, working on education access at Coursera, and refining glucose monitors at Biomedtrics.

When I'm not working, you can find me signing up for new product waitlists, running, playing poker, skiing (in the winter), and surfing (in the summer).

I am occasionally lucky to be invited to join a founder on their journey. I generally invest in early stage companies focused on fintech, education, biotech, and enterprise software. I'm a small part of the cap table and any success is squarely due to the work and tenacity of the founders. Note: these are a mix of personal investments, investments via SPVs, and investments led/made while working at a fund.

I love to write about topics that interest me such as startups, software, investing, ethics, heuristics, and history. I'm also interested in the intersection of software, startups, and investing and how this intersection can transform antiquated industries such as finance and education.

make people think.

• "The open secret of real success is to throw your whole personality into your problem." - George Polya, How to Solve it
• "To the extent that you enjoy working hard, do. Subject to that constraint, it's not clear that the returns to effort ever diminish substantially. If you're lucky enough to enjoy it a lot, be grateful and take full advantage!" - Patrick Collison, patrickcollison.com/advice
• "Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough." - Richard Feynman
• "The most important task at first is to build something people want. If you don't do that, it won't matter how clever your business model is." - Paul Graham
• "Work until you no longer have to introduce yourself" - Harvey Specter, Suits

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