Career

I've been working on startups for the past 15 years. I got my start at an online ticketing startup in Philly called TicketLeap and then taught myself to code and convinced the founders of Venmo to hire me by building Fantasy Payments. I was employee #2 at Venmo (that stuck around) and then Head of Growth, from 10,000 users to the first million. I left Venmo to co-found my first company, Mave, a growth platform that took a bunch of our learnings from Venmo and offered them to any app developer. Mave was sort of acquihired by Fin, where I became Head of Growth.  We were trying to build Samantha from Her, but we were a couple years too early - GPT wasn't around yet.  We pivoted and worked on analytics for a while.  When Fin shut down in February 2023, I really wanted to write a book about Venmo and the beginning of Boz started to form.