now
founding team @ newco
previously
principal @ afore, supported and invested in founders at the earliest stages (afore is a pre-seed focused software generalist vc fund managing ~$500m across four funds, started by the first pm @ twitter; the portfolio has raised $2+ billion since 2016). i got the job through a twitter dm. at afore, i met with founders for our core checks and also ran our founders-in-residence program: https://afore.vc/residence
origins
was lucky to grow up at a school where design thinking, social and emotional learning, and long-horizon projects were baked into the core curriculum. tinkered with hardware in middle school (got really into amateur radio) and started a software company with two friends in high school. studied cs & finance @ boston college and had the privilege of working with other young founders through rough draft, contrary, start@shea. interned for a dozen companies from pre-seed to post-ipo like crowdstrike / eightfold / fictiv and a bunch of vc firms like accel / battery / foundation. proud eagle scout '15