Modesto High School: IB Diploma 2018-2022
Stanford University: B.S. Computer Science and Product Design 2022-2026
I followed my curiosity in college and, as a result, have taken an wild amalgamation of courses from different disciplines:
Behavior Design [BJ Fogg], The Business of Venture Capital [Scott Kupor], Making Sense of Strategy [David Demarest], Things About Stuff [Tom Lee], Healthcare Venture Capital [Ronjon Nag, Michael Snyder], Real Estate Development and Finance [Nelson Koen], Graduate Design Research Techniques [Michael Barry], Beginning Improvising [Lisa Rowland], Business Design [Omar Siddiqui], Visual Frontiers [Zio Ziegler, Patrick Fenton], Entrepreneurship, Lessons from the Trenches [Parth Bhakta, Divya Gupta], Social Computing [Michael Bernstein], Operations Management [Irene Lo], Psychology of Stoked [Shashank Joshi, Daryn Reicherter], The Chinese Economy [Scott Rozelle]
Cold calling 10,000 people on a congressional campaign in a swing district taught me more than anything else could about sales.
My gap quarter working at Bandana taught me to always think about distribution first, and to use the 80/20 principle to move fast.
Working at Bump taught me to sweat over the details, because they make a difference whether you recognize it or not.
Vipassana (a 10-day silent meditation retreat) taught me to control my mind (and was where I realized I wanted to study Computer Science).
WWOOFing over winter break taught me how to milk a goat.
DJing has taught me the utter joy you feel when you create something people LOVE.
Serving as a California state policy official at 17 taught me the importance of well-calibrated incentive structures… and how to parse through 300 page agendas.
