What to Expect
I’m excited to embark on the startup journey with you. My experiences from co-founding OpenStore, scaling it to a billion-dollar valuation, to advising fast-growing startups at Founders Fund, and building at Opendoor, Facebook, and Apple have taught me about the highs and lows of startup life.
Why I Share My Insights 🤔
My goal is to pass on the knowledge I've gained to help you navigate your own startup adventures, whether you're founding a company, joining a startup team, or simply passionate about the startup world and your own personal growth. The intense world of startups often necessitates significant personal growth and I plan to explore how these two dimensions reinforce each other.
A Bit About Me 👷♂️
I've always been a builder, whether that's building projects, teams or companies. I started with coding at age 12 and my journey has taken me from hands-on software engineering to leadership roles across engineering, product, design and growth teams and owning messaging, communications and press. My superpower is this breadth, understanding how all the part of a business fit together. I love the chaos of the ambiguous, uncertain, and ever-changing world of startups.
My Personal Interests 🏋️♀️
I'm passionate about health, wellness, and quantified self. I love challenges such as five-day water fasts, cold plunges, saunas, exploring longevity through continuous glucose monitoring, obsessively tracking my sleeping, and enjoying nature through hikes, tennis, or kayaking.
Looking Ahead 👀
I've written on how to hire executives, manage them once they started and how to continue to innovate in a high performance organization. In future posts, I'll share thoughts on building startups such as the importance of brand, focusing on what users want, and how investors evaluate startups. In addition, I'll share ideas on personal growth such as differentiating between good and bad advice as well as finding your next startup.
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If all this sounds great to you, please subscribe and join the community of like minded people who live and breathe the startup ethos, not just in business but in personal growth too.
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