All my life, I have watched those around me inspire and educate through storytelling. It was a love for consuming and creating stories that landed me here and shaped my approach as an investor.

At Penn, I studied Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, and at some point realized I was just one course shy of an accidental additional minor in creative writing. So I enrolled in a course called “Entrepreneurial Journalism.” In each class, we met and heard stories from founders while working on our own startup ideas. At the end of the course, we each competed for seed funding from the university. The news site and betting market to harness the wisdom of the crowd and run predictive analytics that I built with some friends won and so I graduated with a bit of funding earmarked for the startup and a mandate to go build. Later that year (2015), I met and pitched Vivjan, John, and Brendan.