Brief background

As a teenager, I was a semi-professional drummer and audio engineer. At some point I got a day job as an executive assistant at Universal Music Group, where I was lucky to be able to help with internet-related projects. I helped come up with the plan for Vevo and then split off from Universal to build that venture. As an analyst and junior generalist, I fell in love with starting something from scratch – there's no way to learn faster – and got to see millions of people interact with my work.

I was fortunate to work with early team members at Facebook and YouTube, who inspired me to move to Silicon Valley. I noticed that many of my music industry colleagues were more interested in celebrity and scene, but I aspired to build something meaningful and work with brilliant people. So I moved west.

As a musician, I thought I needed to learn about business, so I went to business school. I was wrong about that – you don't learn much about business in business school – but I started working with the guys who would become my cofounders at DoorDash. I wrote a little on how that got started here.

In 2014 I joined Opendoor to lead product and ended up building several early teams there. By the time the team was 800 people or so, I found that general management grated on me, and I was better suited to getting things started than serving as an executive.

I joined Khosla Ventures in 2018 and continued to focus on real estate tech with a focus on financial inclusion. Working with ~ 30 founding teams on behalf of Khosla has been an incredible honor. As of 2024, I still represent Khosla on a handful of boards, but now invest independently.