Ongoing

• Founder of Nautilus

  Building a patronage program to power the next generation of creatives. Patrons include Danielle Strachman, Tyler Cowen, and many more successful VCs and entrepreneurs.

• Operative at 1517 Fund

  Supporting the VC firm for dropouts & Sci-fi builders with various tasks from events to scouting.

Previous selected works

• Ran Edge City fellowship & hackathons during Edge Esmeralda

  From product to talent selection and ops, I had fun creating experiences for young builders at the popup village Edge Esmeralda, gathering ~1300 people through the month-long event.

• Helped build an alternative school in remote Senegal

  Built systems to run a school of two classes (3-6yo & teens), managed a team of 3 and teacher trained them despite language barrier, lived inside the school and designed the classrooms (Montessori inspired), and basically solved 1000 problems everyday.

• Authored Hack ton Bac, Editions Massot – “Hack your Education”

  A methodology book to help teens study as little as needed to get good grades (so that their parents leave them alone) and to focus better on passion projects, getting an internship in a startup… Sold in +4k libraries, invited to talk about it in Ivy League, high schools, and biggest national media.

• Built Reverse, an entrepreneurship program for young people

  From product to talent selection and ops, collaborated with the biggest startup accelerator in Europe to create Reverse. Students went on to raise 10s of millions with their companies. I was 17 years old.