[My story]
// The journey from kid filmmaker to founder
I've been building things since I was a kid filming videos with a cheap HD camera and posting them online. That instinct — to take an idea, make it real, and share it with people — has shaped almost everything I've done since: starting Pangea out of my Brown dorm room, going through Y Combinator, building founder communities in New York and Cambridge, and now digging deeper into systems and strategy at MIT Sloan.
1995–2013
Upbringing
Early creativity, family, first experiments
2013–2017
Brown University
History, NOLS Alaska, first version of Pangea
2017–2020
Rhode Island & Early Pangea
Turning a student project into a company
2021
Y Combinator
W21 batch, compressing years of learning
2021–2024
New York & Scaling Pangea
Building the team, scaling the marketplace
2025–
MIT Sloan & Cambridge
MBA, Media Lab, founder communities