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In my career life, I've engaged in multiple disciplines that all center around digital. Our existential "digital age" is one of the most profound transformations of human history. And we're still in early-stages.
Digital has the strongest distribution effect when compared to other business types. At the age of 9, I began tinkering with computers. My fascination with them centered around building experiences that could be distributed at scale. The concept that a web asset could get accessed by anyone at anytime was something that compelled me to create.
Today, I stand behind this original concept that drew me into what was then "a concept" of the internet. Software has the unique ability to solve problems and also have tremendous distribution effects that no other business type can recreate.
My true career began in 2008, where I assisted my college newspaper in converting to an online editorial platform. From there, I continued to join early-stage internet businesses, including the likes of Groupon, Threadless, and Braintree.
As my professional career matured, I received opportunity to have limited and full-time experiences at a number of businesses including: Venmo, Reputation.com, Boxee, Platform9, Uber, Thought Catalog, uShip, KlickTrack, and a handful of other startups that either sunset their businesses through acquisition or burn rate exhaustion.
The experiences are split 70/40 with Consumer internet businesses and B2B internet businesses.
Through these experiences I've designed, developed, written, and released efforts onto the internet with the aim of solving problems for those who need it. A core part of my DNA, which I've been unable to modify, is a deep sense of empathy for other people.
As I look back on my 13-year career, I go back to my original experience with computers at the age of 9. Once more, it comes back to empathy for others, solving problems, and doing so at large distribution.
Incomplete list of companies that I've worked with: Groupon, Braintree, Venmo, Thought Catalog, Reputation.com, Verisk, Volusion, Oak Street Health / CVS Health, Fast Company, Platform9, FOSSA, Visually, Boxee, Digit, uShip, KlickTrack, Stathat.
