I’m an entrepreneur and product designer.
My work has been awarded by Apple and covered by everyone from The New York Times to Esquire.
What am I good at? Catching trends early, designing things that are fun to use, and bringing great people together to build them.
Team is everything to me.
I’m a technologist who loves nature,
a futurist who lives for the present,
and an explorer who loves the feeling of home.
I’ve been a New Yorker, a Los Angeleno, and now an Austinite,
but I’ve always considered myself a citizen of the world.
I’m endlessly curious.
I’m usually wearing sneakers when I’m supposed to be wearing dress shoes.
And after more than fifteen years of building companies, I’ve learned that I will always have a lot to learn.
2014
Little Engine
Founder
Sep 2025 – Now
Tripnotes
Acquired by Dorsia
Co-Founder
Jul 2022 – Aug 2023
Welcome
Acquired by Dorsia
Co-Founder
Sep 2017 – Aug 2023
Whiteboard
Founder
Sep 2015 – Sep 2016
Cameo
Acquired by Vimeo
Co-Founder
Sep 2010 – Mar 2014
Fast Society
Co-Founder
Jun 2009 – Aug 2010
Edopter
Co-Founder
May 2007 – Nov 2009
Founder
Sep 2025 – Now
Independent service providers are flooded with texts – booking clients, rescheduling, and chasing payments. By giving them a new business number, Little Engine is an app that automates their scheduling and payments right in their text messages. Little Engine handles the admin and providers handle the relationships, so they get back over 300 hours a year for whatever matters most to them.
Little Engine
Founder
Sep 2025 – Now
Co-Founder
Acquired by
Jul 2022 – Aug 2023
Tripnotes was one of the first travel-planning apps powered by AI and over 350 million data points. The app could extract destinations from any TikTok, text, note, or article — and build you a beautiful itinerary you could share with friends.
Tripnotes
Co-Founder
Jul 2022 – Aug 2023
Tripnotes combined AI with information on more than 16 million places and 350 million data points to recommend where to go. It considered your preferences, time of day, traffic, and geography to build a trip around you.
We posted this demo of Tripnotes on Twitter, and it took off. More than a million people tried Tripnotes in under 60 days.
The founder of Foursquare praised it, saying, “Dig this. I keep telling people working on city guide startups: ‘You can’t just make a better version of Yelp; you have to reinvent the whole category of local search.’”
Travel plans often started as scattered notes, emails, and articles. Pasting them into Tripnotes turned the places into linked entries on a map, with the original context alongside them.
Planning the trip was only half the experience. With iOS Live Activities, Tripnotes kept your next stop on the lock screen so you could explore without losing track of the plan.
A travel video could be the start of an itinerary. Sharing a TikTok with Tripnotes—or pasting its link—turned the places mentioned into mapped recommendations with useful details attached.
We kept finding great recommendations buried in Twitter threads. Replying with @tripnotes saved the places into a note and put them on the map.
Our custom-trained models extracted places from text, webpages, and video transcripts. We connected those places with reviews, photos, and contact information, building a travel dataset with 350 million data points.
Co-Founder
Acquired by
Sep 2017 – Aug 2023
Mobile app to find the best places nearby and around the world. Place data meets AI. Backed by Accel Ventures and Lakestar Ventures.
Welcome
Co-Founder
Sep 2017 – Aug 2023
Welcome helped people find places they would love, nearby and around the world. It brought curated recommendations and personal preferences together in one app.
A tour of Welcome, from discovering places to saving and sharing favorites.
A great recommendation depends on when you need it. Realtime used time of day, weather, and traffic to surface relevant places from a library of more than 16 million locations.
Founder
Sep 2015 – Sep 2016
Nearly a decade before Apple Vision Pro, Whiteboard explored collaboration in virtual reality on the HTC Vive. We built a shared workspace and experimented with the gestures, interfaces, and room designs that could make creating together feel natural.
Whiteboard
Founder
Sep 2015 – Sep 2016
Whiteboard brought remote teammates into a shared virtual room where they could arrange images, documents, and notes together. A companion mobile app kept the workspace accessible outside the headset.
The mobile app was a window into the virtual workspace. You could schedule meetings, access files, annotate documents, and review sessions without putting on a headset.
We were figuring out how everyday actions should work in VR: opening menus, moving documents, and working together around a board. These storyboards helped us explore the interactions before building them.
We wanted people to interact with their hands rather than learn a new set of controls. We experimented with hand tracking, but used controllers where the hardware needed more precision.
Designing Whiteboard meant designing a space as well as an interface. Inspired by planetariums, we explored curved rooms that gave everyone a clear view of the board without requiring much movement.
Two people working together in the same virtual room. The beta showed what was possible, but also exposed the limits of the hardware: performance, connectivity, and comfort.
Co-Founder
Acquired by
Sep 2010 – Mar 2014
Mobile video creation platform and community. Inspired by the cinematic feel of strolling through New York City. Apple Editor’s Pick and Best Apps of 2013.
Cameo
Co-Founder
Sep 2010 – Mar 2014
Cameo let people turn clips shot on their phones into short films, complete with themes and soundtracks. Rendering in the cloud made effects possible that phones couldn’t handle yet, and friends could contribute clips to the same film.
An introduction to Cameo: shooting clips, choosing a theme, and sharing the finished film.
An early demo of Cameo, with a look behind the scenes at the team building it.
When we launched Cameo in October 2013, Apple featured it front and center on the App Store as its Editors’ Choice. More than half a million people downloaded it in the first week.
Apple included Cameo in its Best of 2013 collection, alongside Spark Camera, Instagram, and other standout video apps.
A few of my favorite films made with Cameo, including some I shot and examples of the themes we designed.
Cameo designers Pat White and Mitchell Hart directed and produced this film from videos made by our community. It’s still one of my favorite expressions of what people could make with Cameo.
Our themes combined motion graphics, color treatments, and typography to give each film a distinct look. Cloud rendering let us build effects beyond what phones could process at the time.
Miley Cyrus and her band used Cameo to share moments from the road and behind the scenes at Saturday Night Live.
Tony Hawk named Cameo his favorite new app in an interview with Kevin Rose at Web Summit.
Celebrating more than half a million downloads in our first week.
Vimeo acquired Cameo in 2014. Our team joined Vimeo, where I became VP of Cameo and led our work on mobile video creation.
On Fridays, teams took turns pushing a beer cart around the Vimeo office. This was our introduction to the tradition—and a good way to meet our new coworkers.
A walkthrough of Cameo 2.0, the version we built at Vimeo.
A highlight reel from Cameo’s first month as a Vimeo app, featuring films made and shared by our community after the acquisition.
Vimeo took the whole company to camp each year. We recorded the last night with Cameo.
Co-Founder
Jun 2009 – Aug 2010
Fast Society let anyone create private, temporary teams with friends around fun events. In a team, participants can group text, create conference calls and share their locations.
Fast Society
Co-Founder
Jun 2009 – Aug 2010
Fast Society brought group texting, one-touch conference calls, and location sharing together for nights out and events. It worked on almost any mobile phone, so friends could stay connected across different devices.
We worked with a CollegeHumor team to show how Fast Society fit into a night out. Some of the people involved went on to work in late-night television and film.
Our SXSW house party started during the Fast Society years and carried on into Cameo. This footage is from 2012, when the party had become a tradition of its own.
Michael, Andy, and I were featured in The New York Times for our work on Fast Society. The paper also covered the emerging group-texting category.
Co-Founder
May 2007 – Nov 2009
Edopter harnessed user insights and global buzz to discover emerging trends, a technology it named Social Trendcasting. Users engaged by creating, following, and sharing trends, observing as they went viral worldwide.
Edopter
Co-Founder
May 2007 – Nov 2009
Edopter was a place to discover and follow emerging trends. People contributed images, videos, and links, and watched how interest grew over time.
Members earned points for spotting trends before they caught on. We tracked how interest developed across audiences to see which ideas were moving toward the mainstream.
The Showcase connected brands with members who had a track record of spotting trends early. Brands could introduce products to those audiences and collect feedback—an early version of what would become influencer marketing.
An appearance in Esquire’s feature on startup founders and what they wore to work.
From Esquire Magazine: “Computers may have changed some in the last fifty years, but a killer suit is still the best way to command respect in the workplace. Here, the next generation of Web Heavies mix sharp tailoring with unexpected twists, and even try to sell us on their startups.”
Co-founders at work in our apartment. Twenty-five years old and no idea what we were doing. The beginning of a long journey.
