Founding team ×5 · Two acquisitions
I build the function
that isn't there.
Five founding teams. Two were acquired. I build the missing function — ops, growth, product — and now the software and the models too.
The pattern
Five times, I was the first one in.
The first ops hire. The founding team. The one who builds the function nobody had staffed yet. WeavedIn: four accounts to twenty-five hundred, then Paytm acquired it. FromCommunity became Fluidworks, and 1Mind acquired that. The function that isn't there — that's the job.
What I plug in.
The lab
I don't just run models. I train them.
On my own machine, on datasets I build by hand — one that learns to write in my voice, one that works on Konkani, a language most models have never properly seen. Dszape and BeckyOS, built solo with an AI pair. The data is the hard part, so I build the data.
Off the clock
Same instinct. Different medium.
I ride and eat my way across the map on Bike Bite Beyond, and I make Konkani music as Mad Ape on the Odessis label. Start it, finish it, put it out into the world. On the clock or off it, that's the whole job.
Let's talk
Let's build the part that isn't there yet.
I keep a few seats open for founders, and I'm always up for a call with someone earlier in the climb — jobs, resumes, the first hard hire.