Entrepreneur by day / entrepreneur by night
| Education | |
 | MIT PhD Architecture. Computer simulation of space filling permutations. |
 | Harvard Masters or Architecture. CAD and GIS research. |
 | Stanford BS Civil Engineering Authored ArchiTool, a 2-dimensional CAD program. |
| Work | |
| Pyffr – founder Attaching payments to email messages via the CC field: Carbon copying $20.50@pyffr.com in a regular email message initiates a $20.50 payment to the recipient(s) which can be for a service they’ve done or to offer a payment in response to a question. | |
 | Nasally – inventor A nasal mask providing respiratory protection while eating and drinking. |
 | Covidisor – inventor A transparent N95 powered air respirator providing full head protection without masking it. |
 | Ipso – founder Promoting and monetizing social media: • Supports “pay-to-view” content (e.g. pay-per-article, Zoom/event ticketing, digital content sales, etc.). |
 | Photella (iOS/Android) – founder A photo/video sharing app that: 1. Creates crowd-sourced chronicles of places and events based on location and time photos/videos were taken (not when posted). 2. Combines Zoom’s SDK with Stripe payments allowing anyone to charge for and host Zoom meetings from within Photella (without needing a separate Zoom license). $75K+ earned by dance instructors using it during the pandemic. |
 | Rafael Viñoly Architects Headed business development for the Middle East and secured projects with over $75 million in design fees. |
| VibeChat (iOS) – founder A text chat version of CallThere. Texting 001 connects with a randomly selected VibeChat user in the US; texting 212 connects with a user in NYC, etc. | |
 | CallThere (iOS) – founder A voice calling app for chance conversations with random users based on location (country, city, university, etc.). Dialing 001 connects a voice call with a randomly selected CallThere user in the US; dialing 212 connects with a user in NYC, etc. |
 | Vibe (iOS) – founder A location based anonymous messaging app, dubbed “anonymous twitter” for its use at Occupy Wall Street (NYTimes, Observer). Acquired by Betaworks in 2012. Acquired back from Betaworks a few months later. US Patent: Location based asynchronous thread communications |
 | HotDispatch – cofounder An early marketplace of tech expertise (answering questions for offered reward). Seed: Mitch Kapor, Sun Microsystems, and others. Series A: $6 m Accel and NEA. Series B: $18 million MCI Worldcom, Accel, NEA, and SAP Ventures. Moved company from Cambridge to Mountain View on funding. Relocated company back to Cambridge after VC divesture during the 2000 dot-com collapse. |
| Digitool Applied Technologies – founder Developer & publisher of InfoStop an early online yellow pages authoring system. | |
 | Digitool – founder Developer & publisher of Mac Common Lisp. Acquired from Apple after its acquihire of Coral Software to develop the Dylan programming language. |
 | Paradigm Software – founder Developer & publisher of Verbum, Object Logo, and Pearl Controller (first Lego robotics controller for Mac). |