Chief Innovation Officer @ Cerity Partners ($200B+ AUM). Designer / prev. Founder @ Northstar (raised $40M, acquired 2025)

Los Angeles, CA
Joined December 2008
It's the Super IC era. I put together some thoughts to help you navigate it: gabrielvaldivia.com/notes/in…
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wrote down some of the design thinking behind Grok Bot. persistent roles, clear state, scoped context, coordinated teams — an interface designed to move you from operating AI to delegating work. x.ai/news/designing-grok-bot
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Silo's finale is on Friday, here is an interactive visualisation Silo 18. Try it here: 3dscenes.qualityf2p.workers.…
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For most of the last century, companies hired serious designers, illustrators, and artists for the most boring document they published: the annual report. I built an archive of 3000+ of them, spanning 1945-1991.
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In 1843, Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote to a friend after seeing her first daguerreotype: “The very shadow of the person lying there fixed for ever! … I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest artist’s work ever produced.” Our lives and homes are filled with things that once inspired similar awe. I tried to collect those feelings, in quotes like the one above, from people for whom what is now ordinary was brand new. A friar who met the inventor of eyeglasses, a founding father on the new smallpox vaccine, a woman in Iowa on her family’s first indoor bathroom. To look at a modern apartment through their eyes: ordinaryabundance.com
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I love dropping floor plans of houses in the Bay Area and asking LLMs to redesign in a different aesthetic, Kyoto in this case. Models have gotten phenomenal at 3D.
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Former VC brings smart financial advice to people who really need it, instead of just the rich tcrn.ch/3eAgIGq by @bayareawriter
Replying to @northstarmoney
@northstarmoney is a leader in a new benefits category focused on helping employees and their families make better money decisions, it's called Financial Wellness. We've seen it make a real impact on peoples' lives and added it to the Nava Benefits Search engine. Check it out!
You can now find Northstar in the @NavaBenefits Search Engine! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ app.navabenefits.com/vendors…
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Finances can be considered a taboo topic, especially in the workplace. Join us tomorrow at @hr_transform to hear how @Zoom and @NerdWallet support diverse teams with varying levels of financial literacy. #HRT2022 hubs.ly/Q015R-7d0
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"Financial wellness also means figuring out your relationship with money. Is it a means to an end or the end itself?" - @wp of @northstarmoney
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Love that our founder @wp is hosting such a fantastic chat w @SuzeOrmanShow about employee financial wellness. Obstacles: fear, shame and anger. "Face it to erase it. Powerlessness repels people. What makes you powerless? when you are afraid." @M13Company #FuturePerfect
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We regret to inform you that your Venmo balance does not, in fact, count as an emergency fund... Oh, and sometimes our parents are right.
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We're excited to lead a $7.3M Series A in @northstarmoney, a fintech co. that enables employers to offer financial wellness as an employee benefit. Founded by @wp & @mattmatt, Northstar helps improve employees' financial decision-making & wealth-building m13.co/northstars-series-a-r…
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One of the best investments I've made in myself this year has been @northstarmoney. The automatic budgeting tools are solid, but the true value is the 1:1 coaching you get from a licensed financial advisor (s/o Erin). My life and finances wouldn't be the same without Northstar.
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You may be immune to covid19, put your pockets aren't. If you're looking for financial guidance to help navigate these challenging times, join @northstarmoney's virtual Q&A town hall tomorrow.
With #COVID19 impact and uncertainty on all aspects of personal finances, we want to provide support to anyone who needs it. 1) @northstarmoney's Dir of Financial Planning is hosting a virtual Q&A town hall, 3/24 @ 12pm PT. RSVP and submit questions here: zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…
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Lol: 1. Open northstarmoney.com/404 2. Click on the screen 3. Smile
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Awesome to hear good friends @Meshlakhani and @wp dropping knowledge on Personal Finance. Give Mesh’s podcast “Talk Money” a listen if you haven’t checked it out yet! He does an amazing job breaking down finance in a simple / entertaining format. 🔥 – at Manhattan, NY
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It's getting easier and easier to start a fintech company nowadays, especially with companies like @stripe or @plaid creating incredibly powerful APIs that reduce the amount of work that you need to do yourself. mkwng.substack.com/p/whose-p…
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More opportunities to join us and help create the next generation of great design leaders.
Passionate about design, education, and leadership development? We're looking for a program manager to lead programming and shape the future of professional design education. designerfund.com/program-man…
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