I grew up in Edmond, Oklahoma. Since I can remember, I was always fascinated by technology. After school, I spent a lot of time on Napster, tricking out Winamp skins, and meeting strangers in AIM chatrooms.

When away from my computer, my first job was working as a dish boy at Panera Bread®. To this day, broccoli & cheddar soup still warms my heart.

My love for debate and politics drew me to the Bay Area for school. After graduating and spending a few years of technology strategy consulting, I joined a venture capital firm (DFJ, now called Threshold Ventures). There, I got to meet and help invest in Founders building iconic businesses. Companies like SpaceX, Planet Labs, Box, Talkdesk, Rippling, BetterUp, Twilio, and others. I also missed many great opportunities to partner with companies like InstaCart, Robinhood, and many more.

After a few years of venture investing, I joined a startup, AngelList, in 2017. I was employee twenty-something. At that time, we had a single product: Syndicates. During my time at AngelList, we launched multiple innovative products across several business lines, and scaled the platform to support more than $15B of assets. Most recently, AngelList was valued at $4.1B (with a lot more room to grow). At AngelList, I worked on virtually every part of the business (except engineering). At different times, I led Sales, Growth, Partnerships & Product.