Venture Capital & Startups @ AWS | formerly @ TikTok | Co-founder @ AdColony (acquired by Opera Software) | Chasing left point breaks & the eurostep

LA
Joined February 2008
The inaugural Culver Cup is complete! Thank you @AWSstartups for the opportunity to design and execute this first of its kind GenAI Film Competition! #LATechWeek
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🚨Fellow AI peeps… Hollywood is taking notice! 👀🤘🎉
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Today at @AWSstartups event with @BaronDavis and @nikao ✨ A really insightful conversation what Baron’s career and what’s coming for @BIGsummits_ 👏 @Techweek_
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#LATechWeek panel on #GenAI pops off in 45 min! Shout out to @otawakol @bruinengineer for joining @AWSstartups on stage for what’s sure to be an incredible event. Check out the “before” pics, jump in the car and come grab an AI Colada!
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🎙️ 👑 🐐 Excellent WSJ article about the GOAT. “But I ain’t 5-0, y’all know it’s Nas, yo.” Shout out to @Brie and Evan Giamanco who were front row with me at Nas’ Cannes 2022 performance nearly one year ago. Thanks to @mikeowennyc for the hookup. lnkd.in/gybs3KPc
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🤖 #AI alert! 🤖Excited to host my @AWSstartups panel featuring @bruinengineer (Buildbox.ai) and @otawakol (Rembrand) at LA #TechWeek. Shout out to @a16z for organizing the week-long conference! lu.ma/lznf9lhg
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Ciao amici! Attention Cleantech friends! In collaboration with Italy's Eni Joule Entrepreneurship School, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is co-hosting a Cleantech Startup Demo Day featuring 11 promising Italian cleantech startups in Sa…lnkd.in/gDi_W4NM lnkd.in/ggd8WXET
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Besides our mutual love of the Golden Era of Hip Hop, @a16z Co-Founder @bhorowitz knows even more about innovation (as well as deftly worded punchlines)…aws.amazon.com/blogs/startup…
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Love these #TikTok interviews with our friends at National Hockey League (NHL), Warner Bros. Entertainment, and SiriusXM speaking to how these they uniquely partner with us for their marketing campaigns! #FutureofEntertainmentMarketing lnkd.in/g2jndsmg
Day 4 at Cannes, rain is pouring but #DiscoverySharkWeek 🦈 sand sculpture staying strong amidst the downpour. Shout out to our friends & partners at Warner Bros. Discovery for great meetings this week! lnkd.in/gKmNUTgW
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Excited to moderate the Emergence of the Creator panel featuring Hannah Stocking & Alex Warren at the ThinkLA Entertainment brunch on Thu 4/6. Join us as we learn how today’s top Creators partner w/Brands and Fans to create the Future of Entertainment Ma…lnkd.in/grzrYn7y
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“Ever since young Americans began their exodus from commercial television to streaming services and social media…” Great opening line from the latest report on how TikTok enables brands to connect more deeply with today’s customers. lnkd.in/gpTRVDVH
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About five years ago, I chatted with a good friend from a major social network about which of his competitors kept him up at night. The name he called out surprised me. It wasn’t one of the usual suspects.  The competitor? He replied, “…lnkd.in/gMPm9xR
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Wanted: Head of Product Management! Huckleberry Labs is an incredible health & wellness startup focused on helping kids (and their parents) get better sleep and more! Co-founded by a brilliant wife-husband team, CEO Jessica Toh and CTO Seng Oon Toh, this…lnkd.in/gbYvmbU
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So proud of the blazing hot #connected #fitness team at addaday! Just got their newest massage gun: the BioZoom Edge. Incredible story of weathering the Covid gutpunch in Q1 to now having their products at every single Target store in America! Not to men…lnkd.in/d3gzNW6
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The Walt Disney Company announces pivot to content. Once shareholder value increases, does a sale to Apple or Amazon come next? And does the runner up buy Netflix in an arms building race for content? lnkd.in/ghzQxgy
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To fight the billions $$$ lost every year, greater transparency for measurement & optimization among partners/actors/vendors in the digital ad supply chain is needed: "There are piles of research papers in support of this idea, sho…lnkd.in/gSgeyqR lnkd.in/gDV8ynv