I love to build and back legendary companies. Since 2010, I have backed 17 unicorns from early-stage mostly seed, preseed and sometimes first cheque such as Gusto, Airtable, Ginkgo Bioworks, Boom, Benchling, Carta, Human Interest, ClearTax, Linear (first cheque), Ironclad, Astra, Astranis, Superhuman, Mercury (first cheque), Solugen, Relativity Space and many others.
I am Founder & CEO of Golden (backed by a16z, Founders Fund, Giga Fund, DCVC, and others), where we are building a protocol for knowledge. I previously co-founded Heyzap, which sold to a public company in a deal reported at $45M. I went through Y Combinator in 2009 and have attended every single Demo Day since then, taking detailed notes on which companies I would back, which ones I would not then looking back on which ones turned out to work. I have a Master’s degree in Engineering from the Gonville and Caius, University of Cambridge where I learned everything from Stirling engines to design to how the eye functions and manufacturing of the world’s products.
Many times I will think on a thesis for 10+ years before I come across the correct market timing to be the first cheque into the company. I have thousands of startups in my head that I’m either waiting for, seeking, shaping or in the case of Golden - building. In a nutshell, the objective is to solve the world’s largest problems via backing and building the best founding teams.
