i work in research. i previously published in machine learning, and hold various patents for my work in hallucination prevention and computer vision models.

i grew up in a small farm town in upstate new york. this has influenced my deep perversion for agtech.

i previously held a new york state powerlifting record for all 3 lifts.

things i did before dropping out of university

• promoted for Mr.Purple

• ran a founder event space in nyc

• founded an edtech startup, made an unreasonable amount of money

• founded another edtech startup, did not make as much money

• founded another edtech startup, made no money

• ran a bunch of growth at a seed-stage caffeine cpg

• have eaten over 1000 cuban sandwiches

7/20/2025