About

I was born on a farm outside a small town in West Virginia due to a blizzard. My mother gave birth at home with the help of a midwife because the roads were out. We moved, and I ended up growing up mostly in Missoula, Montana after a slight detour in Albuquerque. Missoula was a fabulous place to grow up — wide open spaces and wildness everywhere.

My childhood peers and I were the last group to grow up unplugged. The Internet was not yet easy or fast, phones all had cords attached to them, and generally all the fun was to be had outside. We still played computer games — I remember fondly LAN parties with Duke Nukem 3D and DOOM — but Montana had too much to offer outside to stay inside for too long.

I studied computer science at UC Santa Barbara’s College of Creative Studies, where I also fell in love with writing. I’ve spent my career building technology companies in Los Angeles and San Francisco — from co-founding a gaming startup to scaling products at Intuit to running operations at Vast.ai. I’m a pilot, a writer, and a Type 1 Diabetic.

Now I live in Los Angeles and sometimes dream of simpler times.