I’m the co-founder of a software startup. Feel free to connect with me and follow my journey on LinkedIn.
Here’s my story ↓
I was lucky enough to grow up near my grandfather, who lived until age 104. I routinely witnessed him struggle to get the care he needed, in part due to his health insurance.
I started FairStreet with my co-founder Sarah Jacobson to help seniors navigate health insurance. We built productivity software for independent Medicare agents, bringing technology to an industry that still often runs on pen and paper and faxes.
90 agents serving 27,000 senior clients ran their business on our platform. In addition, I’m proud of building a low-ego, high-impact team.
Getting to attend Stanford GSB was an incredible privilege and a life-changing experience. I was part of a cohort of peers with improbable life stories, unique passions, and big ambitions. I learned how to mobilize organizations and people to solve problems, instead of trying to use technology alone.
A single day at the GSB felt equivalent to a week in the "real world" because each day was jam-packed with learning directly from leaders (CEOs, politicians, non-profit organizers, investors, and more), a pervasive learn-by-doing approach, and intense personal development via direct feedback and assessment from teachers and fellow students.
Business school expanded my understanding of how the world works and got me thinking in entirely new dimensions**.**
I was one of three new-grad engineers who largely built Facebook’s first public health product, enabling more than 50 million people in developing nations to register as blood donors. Shipping code in Facebook’s top-notch infrastructure and having millions of people use that code just hours later was immensely gratifying. I visited blood banks and hospitals in India and Brazil with my team to conduct on-the-ground research to inform our product development.
My interdisciplinary team spanned engineering, product, data, design, partnerships, and more, and it set a high standard. It's the type of team I aspire to build -- everyone skilled in their discipline, collaborative across functions, and unfailingly passionate.
I took my first computer science class in my first semester and quickly fell in love with that way of thinking and building. I immediately recognized software's endless possibilities to solve problems.