I've spent my career at the edge of breakthrough technology—building companies, writing about the people reshaping industries, and identifying the line between hype and substance. Now I chair stages, moderate panels, and give talks on AI. What I bring to the stage and the page is a vantage point built on three pillars: I have built, I have scouted, and I have investigated. As a founding stakeholder in one of the internet’s first unicorns, I played a central role in assembling the initial capital and operational framework required to scale a transformative idea into a global enterprise. This experience provided a direct view into the structural mechanics of technology; it revealed how systems are funded, engineered, and ultimately survive.

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As a curator for the Forbes 30 Under 30 lists, I vet the financial and technical foundations of the next generation of founders before they reach the mainstream. This role has taught me to isolate truth from hype. However, my primary lens remains investigative. My reporting has shaped public policy, informed accessible design practices, and is currently taught in university curricula worldwide.

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I don’t just track the 'what' of technology. I interrogate its architecture. I move past the press release to the harder, systemic questions. Who governs the resulting digital identity? How do we prevent 'Technological Abandonment,' where users are left stranded by the very tools they were told would set them free? In a moment defined by a massive surge in AI development, my work focuses on ensuring that the next era of computing extends human agency rather than replaces it.