I build things where the social value is the point.

I grew up in Ojai, California, and I'm the first in my family to finish a four-year degree. I learned early that very little arrives by default. You build it, or you go without. So I learned to build: relationships, programs, momentum, and lately, applications with AI.

The first time I really understood what community meant, I was playing cards with someone in hospice. No one there needed me to fix anything: they needed someone to show up.

The two words underneath all of it are community and dignity. I studied Philosophy because I wanted to think clearly; I minored in Entrepreneurship because I wanted to actually make the thing.

What I want next is to make things where social value is the model.