Adventures & Projects

Microsoft Copilot Founding team member. AI assistant shipped to 100M+ MAU. 📖 Was part of the founding team that built Copilot from 0 to 100M MAU. Promoted within 6 months. Hired as a VP exception during a company-wide freeze.
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Microsoft Designer AI-powered design tool built on DALL-E and Stable Diffusion. 📖 Shipped DALL-E image generation into Designer — one of Microsoft's flagship AI products. Featured in two Super Bowl commercials.
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Fair Opportunity Project Free college admissions and financial aid help for students in all 50 states. 📖 Federally funded nonprofit. $5M+ in scholarships in 2024 alone. 1,500+ essay reviews, 300+ mentorship sessions. Mentees attending Stanford, Harvard, and more. Featured in CNN, NYT, CNBC, and Forbes.
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Summer Playbook Find college students near you anywhere in the world. 📖 This is what started it all. It was totally the bomb.
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Get Offline Getting people off their phones. Campus-first social. 📖 What got me into social consumer was actually getting people off of it. Found out it was a slippery slope to getting people online. Oops.
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Checklist Get into and afford the college you're excited about.
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Northland Hackathon Minnesota's biggest hackathon. 📖 Still the biggest hackathon in Minnesota.
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TimeMachine Book 1:1 video calls with career insiders. 📖 Became a whole product series for Fair Opportunity Project.
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Keystroke Supercharge your iMessage into a messaging beast. 📖 Basically wanted to create a Superhuman for iMessage.
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Chat Cleanse Find and delete Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger messages.
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Playbook Chat Real-time campus chat. See who's nearby, make plans. 📖 A Discord for college students. Snuck into BU dining halls for feedback and watched kids destroy the UI in realtime. Had the scrappiest distribution plan ever: passing a paper around classrooms for people to sign up as their study chat.
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TikTok.WTF Save your TikTok videos before they disappear. YC-backed.
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Kargo Video Stream video in real-time to the cloud. 📖 Needed a place to cheaply store video data.
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KickBack Support the creators you love. Get paid when they blow up.
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BeatSpend See what you spend listening to your favorite artist. 📖 Went super viral on TikTok. Got like 30,000 downloads and didn't make any money.
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Fanwave Book a 1:1 video call with your favorite creator. 📖 Got to work with some of the best YouTube creators in the world. Shout to Yes Theory, they're awesome.
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UnMatched Anonymous dating stories newsletter. 10,000+ subscribers.
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PhatHarvest Video course: earn more from social media.
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Side Monies Weekly newsletter: revenue-generating business ideas.
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Code-Star Learn to code through interactive projects. 📖 Went kinda viral on Twitter.
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Friend Flights Find cheap flights to visit your friends. 📖 Pretty well used actually, but the margins weren't great.
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Truewrite #1 GPT detection for educators. 📖 I still want this product but don't know how to build it. Think it's gonna be super important for education.
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LeftPad Spin up a full-stack app in minutes.
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SiteChime Get pinged when someone visits your website.
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OpenMeet Effortless meetings with your teams and clients.
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Warehouse Pro Run your warehouse like Amazon.
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IndustrialTech Internal software for hyper-scaling industrial operations.
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CoveList Browse hacker and hype houses around the world.
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LunarPad Application-based community for founders and engineers. 📖 Basically Summer Playbook for grown-ups.
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FanMaps Meet your online communities offline.
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Big Wave Collective Remote collective of builders creating businesses. 📖 Had a lot of really cool products. Made with this great guy named Andy Burns. Great dude.
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30u30 Community Community for Forbes 30 Under 30 winners.
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HireBounty Be helpful, get paid. Refer people to jobs.
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Conference on Venus Make your remote conference awesome. 📖 This would become what became Online Town and then Gather Town, a decacorn company. We were doing it first, but did we go to market right? Classic.
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InstaBazaar Ethnic food delivery from local cooks. 📖 Me and my co-founder went to a bunch of shops to see if people wanted this during COVID. Probably our most local product.
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Moose Lake Pickleball Open gameplay times for Moose Lake pickleball.
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YouSayTomato.xyz A split-screen news viewer comparing MSNBC and Fox front pages side by side.
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