I am the co-founder and CEO of Hex, a platform for AI-powered, collaborative analytics and data science.
Previously I worked at Palantir and Formation Bio (née TrialSpark), and studied at Northwestern.
I have made some small investments in great companies, like Arcade, Axiom, Blue Sierra, Browserbase, Datology, Detail, Dock, Downlink, Eppo (acq. Datadog), Fermyon, Ferry Health, Fortuna Health, Gradient, Iggy (RIP), Infinite Music, LangChain, Letta, Little Otter, Malleable, Manifest, Meridian, Method Security, Modelbit, MotherDuck, Modal, Mooncake, Norm, Polycam, Preference Model, Railway, Ranger, Rejigg, Readyset, Recast, Spiral, Subcity (acq. ETS), WarpStream (acq. Confluent), Zed, and more.
Variation itself isn't a problem to solve
How to avoid process creep
Understanding Forward Deployed Engineering
Beware thin imitation
What other browser tabs did they have open?
Or, how I learned to actually pay attention in user interviews
Safety concerns aren't the only issue with human-driven cars
When I was mayor of Detroit — the home of Ford — I had a front-row seat to how this technology was progressing. I wasn’t sold.
The boundless demand for insight
What coal and Jevons’ paradox tell us about AI and data
The right number of design partners is two
It's the minimum number that's not one.
The Title Trap
Another form of inflation
Commitment Engineering
The art of finding the first users and customers for a new product.
Blog Posts About Things Being Broken Are Broken
Announcing our $25m Seed Round to Solve Broken Blog Posts about Things Being Broken
On Software, Ships, and Shipping Incrementally
Avoid big bang cutovers at all costs. Originally published on the Hex blog.