I love the way technology improves how people live, work, and play. The rate of innovation is accelerating, disrupting every industry and creating enormous value – I try to drive this disruption.
Most recently I was COO of Meetings.io and negotiated its acquisition by Jive Software. In my spare time, I dabble in coding, hike, and play guitar.
I grew up in Livingston, NJ and went to Washington University in St. Louis for undergrad. I graduated from Stanford's MBA program in 2011.
I grew up in Livingston, NJ and went to Washington University in St. Louis for an undergrad degree in business. While on campus, I led the committee responsible for throwing large music festivals and helped started a music related non-profit.
After graduating from WashU, I entered Stanford's MBA program. I focused on technology and entrepreneurship, learning in the classroom and through consulting gigs with local startups. I also started teaching myself to code.
After graduating from Stanford, I gave myself time to work on my own startup. I spent several months iterating through ideas, continuing to hone my coding skills, and consulting for SF startups.
Over the months, I consulted twice with the Meetings.io team, and helped them pivot to become the current product. In the spring of 2012 they asked me to join full time as the "business guy" and I gladly accepted.
As Meetings.io's COO, I had my hands in Marketing/PR, Strategy, Finances, Legal, and even did a bit of coding. By fall 2012 most of my time was dedicated to M&A discussion with a potential acquirer: Jive Software. We sold to Jive in November 2012 and I am currently there as the Product Manager for the Real-Time (chat, video, etc) team.
In my spare time I code up little experiments, blog, hike, improvise on guitar, and play boardgames. I also advise entrepreneurs and give talks on entrepreneurship and technology.
Coding
All my code is on GitHub.
Ecosystem
This is an ecosystem simulator I build in Processing as a fun art experiment. Click on the screen to add more blue guys. Play with it here.
Ditch the Conference
In collaboration with Katie Johnson - this incredible new startup is a product of HypeUp Weekend. Check it out here.
Reddit Karma Visualization
I built this with Chris Maury. Upon entering your Reddit username, it will visualize the sources (subreddits) of your Karma. You can check it out here: Karma!
Customer LTV Calculator
I built this to strenthen my javascript skills. Check out both the calculator and the related blog post.
Other
The Singularity + Entrepreneurship
Spring 2011 I gave an intro to the singularity talk at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Here are the video and slides.
Creative Commons
I wrote the following papers for the class Strategic Management of Nonprofits. They all focus on Creative Commons. TA feedback is included at the end of the first two papers, in red text.
- Analysis of the Mission Statement
- An appeal for funding to a (fake) Foundation
- A sample fundraising Letter
Short Stories
Here are some short stories I wrote in college
I blog roughly once a week on topics including startups, business strategy, games, coding, and the future of technology.
Check it out here.
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You can check out my old fashioned résumé here.