entrepreneur, founder Om, founder of 1859, inc. — love intersection of AI and techbio — prefer to build.

San Diego, CA
Joined June 2009
From pesticides to cure molecular discovery, to zero latency RL environments that is rebranding data analysis, to physical AI being QR codes and techs using opentrons, the hype train needs a reality check. Love the enthusiasm but it’s got to be reality based
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we made a decision early to raise barely anything, until we had a viable business that could survive on its own. ~3 years of tech dev, hundreds of customer calls, iterations of infra and product. going from 1 customer, to 3, to 52 in 6 weeks + controlling our destiny? priceless. as we advance tens of programs a month, with customers and our own, excited to see whats next...
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Better to be baptized by customers than VCs - all day
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