Andreessen Horowitz

• Started SPEEDRUN, which has now funded ~100 teams out of 12,000 applicants, committing $100M+ to support next-gen consumer, tech, and gaming startups.
• Invested/advised in founders from top tech companies like Meta, Instagram, and Uber to drive innovation at the intersection of AI, developer tools, and gaming.
• Managed a portfolio of startups building at the convergence of AI, consumer social, fintech, and gaming, fostering their growth and success.

Partner

Initialized Capital

● Recruited by Garry Tan (Midas List #35) and Alexis Ohanian (Reddit Co-Founder) to provide founder and operational support for 250+ companies, including Coinbase, Rippling, Instacart, Ro, and Standard Cognition
● Personally advised 140 portfolio companies on product, growth, P&L and talent, executed 3 turnarounds, and supported 7 M&As. Select companies include: AptDeco, Silo, Stacker, Papa, Truepill, Cointracker, Sentropy (acquired by Discord), Guilded.gg (acquired by Roblox), Voyage (acquired by Cruise)
● Sourced and conducted diligence on thousands of companies resulting in 27 successful early/seed-stage investments including Partiful, Clipboard Health, Curri, Apero Health, Routefusion, and OneBuild
● Established and led fundraising process resulting in >$900M of follow-on fundraising for ~45 portfolio companies. Spearheaded guidance/reviews, investor matchmaking, and red-team diligence. Companies include: Shelf Engine, Athelas, Fly.io, Zeus, Shogun, Torch, Horizon Blockchain Games, TRM Labs
● Led Initialized’s networking and portfolio recruiting events (e.g., discussion panel with former US Presidential candidate Andrew Yang, founder mental health summit, and thematic founder dinners)
● Started Initialized Internship Program, which supported all partners and staff

Facebook

Brought in to lead new zero-to-one consumer products (e.g., messaging, fb.gg, and predecessor of Instagram Reels)

Product Manager

Esper, Inc.

● Raised $3.7M seed from 8VC (Joe Lonsdale), Khosla Ventures (Keith Rabois), Initialized Capital and angel investors
● Managed team of 25 to create AI scheduling assistant service and ML calendar analytics
● Scaled to 25,000 users across 1,000 companies, such as Dropbox, Kohl’s, Roche, BBVA, & Salesforce

CEO / Co-Founder

US Small Business Administration

● Worked under SBA Administrator Karen Mills, SBA Associate Administrator Sean Greene and US CTO Todd Park
● Recruited/managed 20+ tech leaders and engineers for the Presidential Innovation Fellows (later US Digital Service) program to work on government tech projects (e.g. RFP-EZ to help government contracting). Alumni of the program later contributed to 18F and fixed healthcare.gov
● Tripled commercialization rates for 60 managers across 11 agencies (incl. NIH & DoD), covering $2.8B of SBIR.gov grants (e.g., robotics, genetic therapy, advanced weaponry, space exploration)
● Represented the SBA on crowdfunding regulation, $25B SBIC, Startup America, and immigration legislation

Senior Advisor / Director of Product

Zynga

● Managed two cross-functional teams of ~30 FTEs
● Launched several features (e.g., buildables, expansions, digital goods) that directly contributed >$2M to FarmVille revenue, supporting Zynga’s $7B IPO
● Designed/implemented $6.6M/year savings plan for FarmVille customer support
● Led efforts in cross-promotion and diagnosed/resolved red-alerts for 250M MAU

Senior Product Manager

JamLegend

● Built, grew, and monetized leading social music game with 3M+ users (850k monthly) globally
● Managed team of 13 and files two music tech patents
● Acquired by Zynga, delivering stock returns on $650k seed funding for angel investors
● CNET Webware winner and 2010 GDC Speaker

Co-founder / CEO

Fantasy Congress

● Created FantasyCongress.com, an online political game modeled after fantasy sports, with 80K users that was featured in NYTimes, LA Times, BBC, CNN and NPR
● Partnered with Politico.com to create Kingmaker (political predictions game) and Sunlight Foundation to create PoliQuiz (political quiz widget for Facebook app platform)

Co-Founder

Rose Institute of State and Local Government

● Work study managing team of 30 student researchers
● Started nation's largest California Politics web archive, the "Google Books" of California state government, in partnership with the Claremont Colleges Digital Library
● Co-authored multiple papers in judicial redistricting reform, preservation of public lands, and local government survey research

Student Manager & Researcher

Environmental Protection Agency

Published a report evaluating EPA’s $2M Evaluation program - "Competing to Improve: An Assessment of the “Improving Results” Competition," presented at 2006 American Evaluation Association in Portland, OR Oct. 30 - Nov. 5, 2006

Office of Policy Economics and Innovation Intern (International Leadership Foundation Fellow)

Experienced manager and connector with expertise in building technical and business teams across consumer, large enterprise, government, and startups.

Passionate about solving the world's inefficiencies with technology.

Previously, CEO & Co-Founder of Esper, a startup that used machine learning to automate the work of an assistant, which included calendaring, task management, and calendar analytics. Before that, I was a Senior Advisor/Director of Product @ SBA/White House, Product @ Zynga, Founder/CEO @ JamLegend (acquired by Zynga), and creator of Fantasy Congress.

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