Education
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Masters, MBA 2005-01-01 - 2007-01-01University of California, Berkeley
BA, Political Economy of Industrial Societies - 1999-01-01Work Experience
Firebird AI
Current
Firebird AI
Play Time
Current
Play Time
Matchday
Current
Matchday
Washington Spirit
Current
Washington Spirit
Graph Ventures
Current
Graph Ventures
Hoodline
2016-01-01 - 2020-04-01
Hoodline
Rakuten Viki
2008-01-01 - 2018-12-01
Rakuten Viki
Embrace Global
2007-01-01 - 2015-12-01
Embrace Global
NBCUniversal
2007-09-01 - 2009-12-01
NBCUniversal
United Nations
2006-05-01 - 2006-12-01
United Nations
Skills
Summary
Build mode | Firebird.ai Co-founder & CEO of Play Time with the 🐐 Minority owner, Washington Spirit ✊🏼 Prior-prior lives - Founder of Pixel Labs / Hoodline (acq by Nextdoor). Co-founder & CEO viki.com, from bootstrap to 40M+ users (acq by Rakuten). Co-founder & joint patent holder of Embrace, a $25 infant incubator for the developing world (in 22 countries, now IdeaLab NYC). GP @GraphVentures, LP @Sequoia. Rakuten Board Of Directors Observer & Viki's Exec Chairman. NBCU SVP, int'l productions, Dentsu Japan, UNDP's first crisis zone private-public partnership initiative in South Sudan, and various int'l dev. initiatives with Ashoka & the UN (Afghanistan, Armenia & Ghana). World Economic Forum Media & Ent. steering committee member, WEF Agenda Contributor, and WEF Technology Pioneer with Viki.