serial founder | builder | coach | model
18 @ san francisco
"The world belongs to the energetic." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
legendary moments
6 ventures across industries, 2 acqusitions
scaled to 1M+ users across products
developed data systems for the nba, verizon, etc
head of an ai medical research team as a uc berkeley freshman
lead 50+ full-time employees before getting my drivers license
financially independent @ 15 (and lost it all trying new shit)
ongoing quests
amma — ai healthtech startup in stealth mode
i spent a lot of time alone as a child (not always by choice).
this allowed me to develop my own unique style of thinking without external influence.
it's shaped everything i've built so far.
if all of this doesn't work out, i'm perfectly happy being homeless for the rest of my life.
at least i'll know i tried.
lore
my first hustle was selling my cousin's old math tests in 5th grade.
my dad taught me to code when i was 9 y.o.
started my first startup building websites for restaurants
expanded to a webdev agency managing 4 full-time devs
built a new kind of telemedicine platform for ESL patients
sold to an anonymous hospital chain (1st acquisition)
started skipping school to work on my side hustles
founded lemonhat: delivery system for local farms (scaled to 100K+ users)
worked as a founding eng at prosimo
got acquired by palo alto networks ($10B)
booked a couple amateur modeling shoots bc someone called me chopped
graduated valedictorian with 63.22% attendance
full-sweeped college apps (except stanford)
started freshman year at berkeley
skipped my cs final for a yc interview
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