About me

• Largely self-educated programmer
• Learned to program to start web startups
• Co-founded Pipe
• Y Combinator class of 2015, University of Michigan Finance graduate, Stanford NDO student, Batch 2 of Recurse Center
• Wrote software at various companies (Plaid, Invitae, Braintree)
• Investor in various technology startups
• Bitcoin core contributor & miner

Writing

• Bitcoin is interesting (Feb 2021)

Current interests

• Math. Learning the fundamentals.
• Computer systems. Understanding the various layers of abstractions that enable modern-day computers to work is something I'm currently fascinated by.
• A better way to do web programming. Yes, this is incredibly saturated. I was (un)fortunate enough to be a junior developer through the massive evolution of the web stack. And although much has changed, somehow the web feels harder to develop for. Modern web frameworks are incredibly hard to understand and debug.
• Health and longevity, particularly related to early prevention and detection of disease. Tinkering with Galen Scientific, a web app that analyzes your biomarkers on a regular cadence to pick up anomalies.

Some Investments

• levels.fyi
• highlight.io
• acquire.com
• moderntreasury.com
• ocean.xyz
• railway.app
• copilot.com
• reflect.run
• unkeyed.dev
• neo.tax
• replit.com (customer SAFE round)
• opalcamera.com
• trucksmarter.com
• era.app
• kyohealth.ai
• compound.xyz
• primer.com
• usebasis.co

Contact

Get in touch if you think we have something in common to discuss. First name dot last name at gmail dot com. I can't promise to reply to your email, but I can say that many of my best relationships have started out with a cold email.