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Re-inventing fashion through the use of tech with FINESSE.
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After more than ten years at Two Sigma Ventures, I’m preparing to cofound a new VC firm. I’ve always loved building, both as a founder and as a…
After more than ten years at Two Sigma Ventures, I’m preparing to cofound a new VC firm. I’ve always loved building, both as a founder and as a…
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OpenAI’s latest policy update (Oct 29, 2025) highlights a clear reality for regulated industries: general-purpose chatbots shouldn’t deliver tailored…
OpenAI’s latest policy update (Oct 29, 2025) highlights a clear reality for regulated industries: general-purpose chatbots shouldn’t deliver tailored…
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🔥 I'm looking for my Wozniak. I’ve built something real, and FAST— 1. A media brand (CatGPT, 1M+ followers in 1 year), and its sister... 2. A…
🔥 I'm looking for my Wozniak. I’ve built something real, and FAST— 1. A media brand (CatGPT, 1M+ followers in 1 year), and its sister... 2. A…
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Education
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Stanford University
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Activities and Societies: Stanford Transhumanist Association, Alpha Delta Phi
Track: Artificial Intelligence
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Volunteer Experience
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Founding Member
BananaFair Villingen (FairTrade associated)
- 1 year 6 months
Poverty Alleviation
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Head of Charity Committee
Earlscliffe Sixth Form Boarding School
- 1 year 2 months
Human Rights
LGTBQ and Women's Rights
Courses
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Advanced French Conversation
FRENLANG 60C
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Education as Self-Fashioning Lecture Series
ESF 50
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Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders
MS&E 472
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Gender and Sexuality in Popular Culture
PWR 1KC
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How Does the Brain Work?
THINK 15
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Introductory Course in Symbolic Systems
SYMSYS 100
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Machine Learning
CS 229
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Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning
CS 224N
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Programming Abstractions
CS 106B
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Programming Methodology
CS 106A
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Quantitative Trading: Algorithms, Data and Optimization
STATS 244
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Symbolic Systems Research Seminar
SYMSYS 280
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Undergraduate Research Under Thomas Sudhof
MCP 199
Projects
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Machine Learning Projects
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- Monte Carlo Tree Search General Game Player with Propositional Nets Using Forward Differential
Propagation Multithreaded on Google Cloud
- Algorithm Processing Speech of Speed Dating Corpus, Predicting Chance of Second Date Based on
Conversations - Artistic Representation of the Results
- Algorithm Classifying Areas as Gentrified via Computer Vision on Satellite Imagery
- Funny, Vernacular-Speaking Movie Recommendation Chatbot (Using TF- IDF for Similarity)
- Random…- Monte Carlo Tree Search General Game Player with Propositional Nets Using Forward Differential
Propagation Multithreaded on Google Cloud
- Algorithm Processing Speech of Speed Dating Corpus, Predicting Chance of Second Date Based on
Conversations - Artistic Representation of the Results
- Algorithm Classifying Areas as Gentrified via Computer Vision on Satellite Imagery
- Funny, Vernacular-Speaking Movie Recommendation Chatbot (Using TF- IDF for Similarity)
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Miscellanous
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- Implemented a Heap Allocator in C, More Efficient than Class' Benchmark for Memory Utilization
- Implemented an Artistic Piece Utilizing Recursive Trees - Exhibited at Stanford Computational Film Festival
- Implemented Algorithm to Find Mutations for Peptidase Kumamolisin-As to Optimize Targeted Activity for Celiac Disease Relief -
Mobile Applications
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- Refuge, an App (Ionic) Matching Refugees to Resources
- Care 2 Care, an App (iOS) Aiding Caregivers of Dementia Sufferers, in Cooperation with Stanford Medical School
- Dump the Trump, an App (iOS) Raising Political Awareness & Action
Honors & Awards
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Certificate of Merit with Distinction
Royal Australian Chemistry Institute
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3rd State Prize Bundeswettbwerb Mathematics
Baden-Wuerttemberg
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Highest Obtainable Certificate
International Inel-Leibniz Challenge sponsored by Intel & Leibniz
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1st Place Schwarzwald-Baar Kreis Culture Prize
Hess, Schwarzwald-Baar Kreis, Baden-Wuerttemberg
Prize endowed with 7500 Euros for novel 'Vogelfrei' which I co-authored
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Mundart Honorary Prize for Contemporary Literature
Mundart, Schwarzwald-Baar Kreis
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Second State Prize Bundeswettbewerb Languages Competing in English & French
Baden-Wuerttemberg
Languages
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German
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Farsi
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English
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French
Professional working proficiency
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Arabic
Elementary proficiency
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Hadley Harris
Mildly spicy take: Seed investors should almost never be on the board. If you need to invoke board governance at the seed stage, you’ve already lost the game. Why this matters for founders: Series A and B investors usually require board seats. I’ve seen too many cases where seed investors refuse to step off, leaving founders stuck with three preferred seats before even raising a Series C. Suddenly your board needs to be seven people just to preserve founder control and make room for new investors. That’s a governance mess, especially for a company still relatively early.
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JT Benton
Here's a problem we see all the time in early studios: they copy-paste a VC fund's operating cadence and wonder why nothing feels right. Weekly deal flow reviews. Portfolio monitoring calls. Valuation-focused LP reports. All borrowed wholesale from a fund playbook. But a VC fund's primary activity is deal selection -- source, evaluate, check, board, wait. A studio's primary activity is venture creation -- generate, validate, recruit, build, launch. Those are fundamentally different jobs. When you run a studio like a fund, things break in specific ways: Your meetings are wrong. You're reviewing deal flow instead of venture build progress -- milestones, blockers, resource allocation. The work is building, not sourcing. Your team is wrong. Studios need builders at every level -- operators, designers, engineers. Not just investment professionals. You can't build companies with a team designed to pick them. 📉 Your metrics are wrong. Entry valuations and markups don't tell you anything useful. Cost-to-build-a-venture, time-to-market, and venture survival at 18 months -- those are the numbers that actually measure whether the studio is working. Your LP reporting is wrong. Report operational progress -- what's building, what's launching, what's been killed and why. Not just portfolio movements. Here's the lesson -- the studios that struggle most are the ones that adopted VC templates without modifying them for fundamentally different work. The portfolio companies don't exist until the studio creates them. Not a fund that happens to build things. A builder that happens to have a fund. The operating rhythm should reflect which one is primary. 🎯
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