Entrepreneur / Artist
Timeline
- Age 13: Taught myself programming and graphic design
- Won a few competitions (below) from these self-taught skills
- Age 16: Placed in global top 4% at Google Code-In
- Age 17: Placed 3rd in Skills Canada Provincial Graphics Design Competition
- Age 19: Placed 1st in an IBM UX Design Competition with a 5-person team
- Age 20: Started as a software engineer at PocketHealth — a healthcare startup
- Age 21: Founding engineer for Arise Money — a mobile banking app
- Age 22: Dropped out of University (UofT) to work on something important
- Age 23: Founder/CEO of Scholar — backed by Balaji Srinivasan
- Scholar built tools for reproducible publication to realign science on the value of independent replication
- Wound down Scholar after a short stint at ResearchHub — same mission, greater chance of success
- Age 24: Left ResearchHub to decentralize AI at PRIVA
Books
My favourite books:
- Zero to One, Peter Thiel
- The Lessons of History, Will & Ariel Durant
Links
Work
Photography