I was born in Malaysia to Kashmiri parents and raised mostly in Saudi Arabia. I moved to America for college and started my first company, Proats, which sold custom liquid meals to campus athletes who, like me, found nutrition tracking a pain. This paid for tuition.

After I graduated, I spent a year living out of my backpack, busing around America. By the end of that year I ended up in San Francisco, met a few founders, and figured out what I wanted pretty quickly.

I learned to code, joined Lunchclub early, and learned a ton working with really smart people. Within two and a half years I was running four engineering teams, and we had facilitated millions of meetings. When it became clear the company wasn't going to grow much further, I helped pivot it to Lighter and then left to figure out what I wanted to do next.

Since then I've been investing in friends' companies (most notably Cognition, Sesame, Prosper, Modal) and helping get other peoples' ideas off the ground (Ami, Indent, Modern Capital).

Along the way, I've found a constant source of energy from teaching and supporting outlier kids. That's what gives me life. Most recently that's taken the form of Foundation.