Artist · Founder · Healer · Writer
Artist turned serial entrepreneur, building at the intersection of technology, human experience, and the future of learning.
Three startups, one exit, and a children's book series about energy and resilience. Today I build with AI at SF Vibe House, a hacker house for exited founders, and write about where technology meets spirituality.
Yale graduateStanford StartX alum
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Startups
Every company has been about the same thing: helping people express themselves visually. The medium moves from video to emoji to 3D objects placed in the real world.
360M+people reached through network partnerships
A social network and marketing platform for film releases. It gave studios a direct line to fans and gave fans one place to follow the movies they loved. My first company, sold to Gfycat, which later became part of Snap.
1.3B+stickers used
The second-biggest sticker marketplace in the world, after Line. Artists created the art and people used it to say what words couldn't, right inside their conversations.
10M+AR videos created by users
An AI-powered augmented reality camera and creative platform, reimagining how we communicate and create in a visual-first world. Place sharks overhead or flowers at your feet, then capture and share the scene. A marketplace lets 3D designers sell their models to millions of mobile users.
Press
Three companies, three funding rounds, and a few things I have written along the way.
The work
Technology, how we heal and grow, and how children learn. I used to think of these as separate lives. Now that AI is changing how we think and create, they keep asking the same question: how do we build tools that make us more human, not less?
Build
Building in AR and AI to shape the future of visual communication and digital interaction. Most days I am coding with AI alongside other exited founders at SF Vibe House.
Align
Writing about health, healing and spirituality: how we live, grow and stay aligned in an increasingly digital world.
Learn
Rethinking how children learn through homeschooling and self-directed models that put independence, creativity and real-world exposure first.
Healing
Alongside the companies, I study and practise the energy traditions that shape how I live, parent and build. The faster AI moves, the more I value practices that bring us back to presence, intuition and the body.
Writing
Substack
Health, healing and spirituality: how to stay coherent while AI and technology reshape the way we live.
Children's books
Thirteen picture books for four-to-eight year olds about emotional and spiritual growth. Each story brings a big idea like awareness, energy or resilience to a child's level, with wonder and without lectures.
The Golden Castle Healers
Sebo, Rosie and Fiona live in a golden castle in the forest. In each book a visitor arrives with a tradition from somewhere in the world, and the children explore it with wonder. Sebo is the kind one, Fiona the smallest with the biggest courage, and Rosie the golden-hearted healer.
What does it look like to design both technology and life in a way that moves in harmony with how humans are actually meant to live?
About
I started as a painter, with solo exhibitions in SoHo, New York and in San Francisco, before I ever started a company.
Art taught me what startups later demanded: make something from nothing, show it before it's ready, and keep going when nobody is buying yet. That instinct runs through everything since, from movie marketing to stickers to 3D worlds you can hold up in your living room.
Today I run Leo AR, code with AI at SF Vibe House, homeschool my children, write every week and author The Golden Castle Healers. It is a full life, and more and more it feels like a single one.
Artwork
Most of my paintings are made over the pages of other people’s words: newspaper articles about bubbles in tech, real estate and gold, children’s books by Shel Silverstein, novels, and the poetry of ee cummings.
Places I've lived & worked
Los Angeles to New Haven to New York to San Francisco, drawn to scale by the years spent in each.
Say hello
For AR partnerships, speaking, the books, or a conversation about any of the above.