Where I've been and what I've built.
- Recall Co-founder & COO
Co-founded Recall to tackle the data substrate question for a new era. After taking a year off post-3Box, I realized the coordination and data ownership challenges I had spent six years on had moved to a new front: AI agents.
- Building a decentralized knowledge graph protocol that lets AI agents store, recall, and share structured context securely.
- Designed and shipped the Recall Protocol and its open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server within the first few months of development.
- Chose the COO role intentionally—stepping out of the CEO's 'investor performance theater' and back into the pure builder/operator seat.
- We are early, betting on which data substrate matters most when agents begin to coordinate autonomously.
- 3Box Labs Co-founder & CEO
Co-founded and led 3Box Labs to build a decentralized data substrate for the open web. We spent six years chasing user-controlled data as a new foundation for human coordination—raising $35M, building a world-class team, and learning hard lessons about timing and product-market fit.
What we did and didn't get:- Raised $35M in venture capital from top-tier firms including Union Square Ventures (USV), Placeholder, and Metaplanet.
- Shipped the Ceramic Network, growing a developer community of 5,000+ creators and peaking at over 100 active teams shipping on the stack.
- Won the 'Best Startup to Work For' award, building a deeply aligned, high-integrity remote organization of 30+ people.
- Failed to find scalable product-market fit: alternated messaging trying to force traction, struggled to explain the value proposition, and ignored engineering readiness.
Three architectures, six years:- 2018 — 3Box.js: User-controlled profiles + storage on Ethereum.
- 2021 — Ceramic: Hit the ceiling, rebuilt the foundation. A novel technology still in use by teams.
- 2022 — ComposeDB: Hit the ceiling again, rebuilt again.
- ConsenSys Strategy & Operations
Joined ConsenSys in 2017 to explore whether decentralized identity could change the power dynamics of the web—a move I had called 'speculation dressed up as revolution' just a year prior.
- Led product strategy and pilots for decentralized identity, including one of the world's first self-sovereign identity pilots with the city of Zug, Switzerland.
- Shaped early Ethereum identity standards (ERC-725/735) and co-founded the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) to build open, cross-chain infrastructure.
- Co-authored *Identity Theft* (with my mom, a clinical neuropsychologist), examining the intersection of biological identity loss and digital identity design.
- Came out of the year convinced that identity is fundamentally political and organizational infrastructure, not just a technical problem.
- Zearn Product
First operator role. Joined an early-stage K-5 math platform to build the product team, learn how to ship software, and coordinate across teachers, engineers, and content writers.
- Designed and shipped Zearn’s core adaptive learning engine and teacher dashboard, which scaled to reach 4M+ active students nationwide.
- Patented the core math fluency and number sense progression IP, leading to double-digit gains in lesson completion rates.
- Built the cross-functional product organization from scratch, bridging engineers, curriculum designers, and classroom feedback loops.
- A masterclass in humility: watching second-graders struggle with a screen taught me that beautiful designs die instantly in the hands of real users.
- Bain Associate Consultant → Consultant
Three years of strategy casework across technology, healthcare, and private equity that taught me how organizations actually function under pressure. I loved the analytical rigor, but left when I realized I wanted to build systems rather than advise them.
- Built financial models and ran market due diligence for 10+ private equity acquisitions ranging from $500M to $2B+.
- Led workstreams on a massive healthcare restructuring, identifying $50M in operational savings and redesigning cross-functional clinical processes.
- Offered direct promotion to Consultant (bypassing the Senior Associate Consultant year) — a rare track from undergraduate entry.
- Stanford BA Political Science
Studied political science, behavioral economics, and education. This is where I kicked off a lifelong obsession with a single coordination question: how do people trust each other and work together at scale?
- Studied economics and political philosophy; walked away from traditional economic models when they began by assuming human rationality.
- Founded the student advisory board for the *Stanford Social Innovation Review* (SSIR) and led early ed-tech research in the Learning Sciences program.
- Took my first Computer Science class as a senior—an introduction that arrived three years too late, but planted the seed for building software.