Some recent posts I’ve written:

• Some things I’ve written that I hope will be helpful for founders + startups:

  • OKRs and KPIs for Early Stage Companies (Apr 2025)

  • Here’s What You Can Really Expect When Pitching Your Seed-Stage Startup at a VC Partner Meeting (Aug 2024, First Round Review)

• 8 part blog post series on my experience getting a Prophylactic Double Mastectomy (all written in April 2022)

  • Why I’m writing about getting a prophylactic double mastectomy

  • Why I got a prophylactic double mastectomy

  • Decisions to make leading up to the mastectomy

  • Mastectomy Surgery vs Reconstruction Surgery: What’s the Difference?

  • How I Prepared for My Mastectomy

  • My Mastectomy Recovery (Drains, Expanders, Infection, & more)

  • Gifts to get someone who is about to have (or just had) a mastectomy

  • Reconstruction Surgery

• Here are just a few of the posts I had written as Co-Founder / CEO of WayUp many years ago:

  • WayUp merges with Yello (Jul 2021)

  • Unpaid internships unfairly favor the wealthy: Op-Ed in The Hill (May 2018)

  • The Washington Post Asked Me To Speak About The Future Of Work (Dec 2018)

Some books I’ve recently read and enjoyed:

• American Kingpin (Nick Bilton)

• The 100% Solution: A Plan for Solving Climate Change (Solomon Goldstein-Rose)

• Burn Rate (Andy Dunn)

• Without A Doubt (Surbhi Sarna)

• Red Notice (Bill Browder)

• Becoming (Michelle Obama)

• Shoe Dog (Phil Knight)

• Hackers & Painters (Paul Graham)

• Bossypants (Tina Fey)

• Expecting Better (Emily Oster)

• I’ll Take Your Questions Now (Stephanie Grisham)

• Billion Dollar Whale (Bradley Hope, Tom Wright)

• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin Franklin)

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Frederick Douglass)

• Blood and Oil (Bradley Hope, Justin Scheck)

• Billion Dollar Loser (Reeves Wiedeman)

• Disrupted (Dan Lyons)

• The Ride of a Lifetime (Robert Iger)

• Alexander Hamilton (Ron Chernow)

• The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)

• Radical Candor (Kim Scott)

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things (Ben Horowitz)

• The Score Takes Care of Itself (Bill Walsh)

• Mike Bloomberg (Joyce Purnick)