I have a relentless drive to reach my goals, and I bring an athlete's mentality to everything I build. Years of competitive golf and going to the gym have made discipline second nature.

In my TEDx talk, “How Athletics Fuel Academic Success,” I talk about how I learned to compress my training, using less time to achieve the same result. I did this through strategic shortcuts: heuristics that skip the slow parts, tackling my weaknesses first, and showing up consistently.

Years of introspection have given me a remarkably clear mind, at work and in life. That clarity lets me do two things at once: help build technical companies, and explain their value to the people who will actually use them. I also love bringing people together by curating intimate groups of builders and founders.