I grew up in Silicon Valley and studied at Stanford, where I was surrounded by intellectually curious people who were constantly questioning and challenging the status quo. This is why I love talking to entrepreneurs who can pick apart industries, question the way things are, and dream how things should and might be.

I started in venture capital in 2012, when I joined the growth-stage investing team at Kleiner Perkins. That was 5 years after the iPhone was released and mobile internet adoption was accelerating. Every platform shift leads to an explosion in new companies, and I feel very fortunate to have had a front row seat to some truly iconic businesses of that era. I also helped chronicle a lot of this development in the Internet Trends reports we published. Today, we are in the middle of another technology platform shift with artificial intelligence (AI), and I'm incredibly excited to back founders solving problems with AI. 

In 2017, I took a year off to travel around the world. My learning accelerates when I go somewhere new, because it forces me to think from first principles: how does one country’s experience differ from another, how did that come to be, and if we could reimagine it with a blank slate, how would we build it?  The pockets of leapfrogging that happen can give us a glimpse into the future. I love paying attention to the myriad of new internet users who are coming online all around the world: they bring with them cultural nuances and consumer behaviors that lead to beautiful and unique products. 

At General Catalyst, I lead our growth investing practice as well as our fintech and consumer sectors. I invest globally and work closely with Ramp, Aven, and Thatch in the US, Monzo in the UK, and CRED in India, just to name a few. Outside of work, I enjoy cycling, playing board games, reading, and occasionally wandering a little too far from home.