Oct 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 5 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States

• Launch House is a membership community and venture capital fund focused on investing in and supporting founders in the New Silicon Valley

May 2019 – Apr 2020 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Managed the Platform (APIs & Infrastructure) and Integrations teams. Owned Gmail plugin and Hubspot integration. Clearbit was later acquired by Hubspot.

May 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr · Planet Earth

• Traveled all over the world, freelanced for some startups, made some music, and volunteered in refugee camps.

Jan 2017 – May 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · Mountain View, CA

• Managed a team building AR camera effects, AI voice message transcripts and other novel communication features in various products across Google.

Jan 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · Mountain View, CA

• Co-created the (deal) scouting team and did a ton of analysis on M&A at Google.
• Presented to the CEO and worked alongside some incredibly talented people.

Jul 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Co-created Accenture's first open innovation & venture capital arm.
• Built deal sourcing, tracking and diligence infrastructure and had some cool projects connecting big companies with "startups" like Stripe and Coinbase in the early days.

Aug 2012 – Jul 2013 · 11 mos

• Part of the Accenture Tech Labs R&D team focused on Enterprise Collaboration.
• Built a bunch of cool products with some brilliant engineers to help big companies work together better. Got a patent (US20140379415) for the "social workflow engine"

Dec 2009 – May 2012 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Psychology Department, UC Berkeley

• Researched language transmission as modeled with Bayesian statistics. Wrote a lot of crappy code including a (smallish) language model.
• Received High Honors for honors thesis work.