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In high school I wrote musicals. In college I opened for T-Pain, directed 10,000-person music festivals, founded a fraternity, and started a podcast. Post-grad, I've been launching businesses and helping others get off the ground.

Right now I'm building technology that changes the way people come together — tools for independent musicians, software for luxury hospitality, and go-to-market systems that have touched 1,200+ restaurants. I studied Political Economy with a minor in Digital Culture at ASU as a Tillman Scholar.

A James Beard Award-winning chef once told me that food can only be so good. That shifted something. I stopped trying to be a critic and started paying attention to what shared experiences — food, music, being in a room together — actually do to people. That's what I'm chasing.

In 2016 I went to El Salvador with Family to Family and it changed my life. It taught me what it means to be comfortable being uncomfortable. That thread runs through everything I do.

I practice yoga, dance whenever possible, and believe a spiritual life is a creative life. The two benchmarks for me are the Jesuit Examen and The Artist's Way. I try to find truth, beauty, and goodness in all things.

"Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology."

— E.O. Wilson

Currently in San Francisco. Huge Dune fan. Love Brian Eno. This is the era of the scenius. A lot clicked when I was dancing on stage at Fred Again in December.