Intnex started with an acquaintance bringing me an idea around using AI to evaluate exams. At first, my role was simply to talk it through with them: what the product actually was, whether the technology could solve the problem reliably, whether anyone would pay for it, and whether there was enough there to justify building a company. They decided to pursue it, and I became a mentor.
fluffbotics was probably the first time everything I had learned over the previous decade came together in one place. I joined people I had known since school, assembled a small team across product, engineering, AI, growth, and eventually hardware, and got to work on problems that were difficult enough to require almost every skill I had accumulated. We started with an ambitious idea around LLMs and human consciousness.
I joined Koo when it had roughly 40,000 users. I met the founder, we spoke about product, and I got the job almost immediately. Six months later the product had around 10 million users.
I was around 21 or 22 when I started Openly, and it was probably the most dynamic period of my life. I had moved to HSR before it became what it is today, gathered a group of friends who were still finishing college, and convinced them that we could build a company together. On the first day I was explaining to one of them what frontend and backend meant.
