Married to Jess. Raising Ezra, who is two. Feeding, walking and sharing my side of the bed with Astro and Mabel.
Fifteen years of building products has taught me that technology is rarely the problem. Now I'm helping founders figure out what's actually worth building and building it with them. I work with a few founders at a time.
I'm genuinely astonished by what one can build with zero capital, a weekend, and their own two hands. Trying not to waste this moment.
I work with founders in operations-heavy businesses who are done planning their AI strategy and ready to build something useful.
Early days. A few clients. Selective by design.
Los Angeles → Chicago → Ann Arbor → Seattle → New York → Austin.
Honor — VP Product, world’s largest home care network. Launched a Veterans Affairs line of business from zero to 17,500+ hours of care in six months. Reduced caregiver acquisition cost 40% and time-to-hire by one week.
Season Health — CPO of a three-sided marketplace connecting health systems, insurers, and patients with food and dietician support. Series A. Acquired in 2026.
Whole Foods Market — VP E-Commerce. Owned the $4B online grocery business. Ran the COVID response for 500+ stores. Built the first unified product roadmap spanning WFM and Amazon.
Amazon — Eight years in supply chain and grocery. Took 1,300 hours of manual work per week off operations teams. Launched grocery delivery as a free Prime benefit in four countries. Launched Amazon’s first 3P fresh groceries as an intern.
Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, covering economics, AI, and everything else. Makes me smarter every day. | |
All the news that used to be fit to print. | |
Zvi Mowshowitz, the most rigorous AI coverage on the internet. | |
Matt Levine, your funny uncle who used to work in finance. As a writer, I aspire to be as good at explaining things—and as funny while I do it—as Matt Levine. | |
Byrne Hobart, the most original thinker in finance and strategy. | |
Patrick McKenzie, a nerd’s nerd on the messy arcana of technical, corporate, and human infrastructure. | |
Anything by Neal Stephenson When I read fiction, it’s usually his. Although it may not count as fiction if it eventually comes true, as it has for 35 years. | |
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm. A government department that fights threats that erase themselves from human memory. Hard to describe in writing, which is I suppose a meta-joke. My best recent read. |
Long conversations on AI, science, war history, and whatever else is worth two weeks of Dwarkesh’s time to learn about. The world’s best follow-up questions. | |
Tyler Cowen talks to experts in wide-ranging fields that I never thought to care about. Mind-broadening. | |
Long-format storytelling on the history and strategy of great companies. Always captivating. | |
The most actionable podcast I’ve found for AI practitioners, hosted by Claire Vo who somehow keeps two feet on the ground in this crazy AI world. | |
Tech and AI news done in the style of SportsCenter meets Mad Money meets F1. I look forward to that YouTube notification every day at 1pm CT when they go live. My goal is to one day ring the gong. |
I have been slurping down good bowls of ramen since ~2001, but turned to documenting bowls in 2014 — 35+ reviews, 8 cities, 100+ bowls. My ramen regimen has slowed in Texas — fewer days of “soup weather” — but my yen remains strong. |