I build companies, systems, and arguments.
I’m interested in what happens when technology meets institutions—and in the people willing to make both work better.
About
I’m the founder of A8C Ventures, an AI-native venture studio turning embedded judgment and broken processes into useful products and operating systems. Before A8C, I spent more than a decade working across product, technology, and strategy, including at Facebook, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Sporting Innovations, and Deloitte.
Work Founder, A8C Ventures; previously Facebook, CZI, Sporting Innovations, and Deloitte.
Education Cornell University, magna cum laude.
Earlier Missouri state champion debater, 2007.
Selected writing
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The American Presumption
Freedom is not only what the law protects. It is who bears the burden when power demands silence.
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AI Vendors Committed $5 Billion to Deployment
A deployment thesis from A8C Ventures.
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Torturing America
Why torture fails the American national interest.
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Threats for Peace?
The domestic distributional effects of military threats, with Sarah Kreps.