I’ve spent 15+ years building inside other people’s companies. I scaled Weedmaps from 30 to 300+ engineers through IPO, led ShopKeep through a $550M acquisition by Lightspeed, and most recently served as Chief AI Officer at BuildOps as it crossed unicorn status.
Across all of it I kept learning the same lesson: the hardest problems in technology aren’t technical — they’re human. And now, increasingly, they’re about what gets coordinated, not what gets coded. I’m building Aqen.ai — and Grazier Ventures around it — to put that observation to work.