Not the one from Ted Lasso.

Just another thinkboi with a minimalist personal site.

I build

I'm the Founder & CEO of Micro.

I invest

I’m an angel investor and Cofounder + General Partner of Launch House Ventures a pre-seed/seed fund investing in futurist founders with chips on their shoulders.

I write

I manage a tech news publication called Homescreen and write cringey posts on Linkedin and ragebait on X. I also used to write a newsletter called Social Studies.

I make music

I've been writing, producing, and mixing music as Monte Del Monte for over a decade.

I previously did other stuff

I was a PM at Google and Clearbit, co-created Accenture Ventures, and did M&A strategy at Google. I also taught music to kids in refugee camp, was a Computational Cognitive Science researcher at UC Berkeley working on language models, and was BTC class of 2014, ETH class of 2015.

I like

Working in cafes, Crossfit, design, conscious leadership, Ableton wizardry, niche indie electronic music (see my Discover Weekly), sprezzatura, Japan, Germany, cognitive linguistics, the philosophy of Spinoza, Bourdier, and Baudrillard, swing dancing and sushi.

I read

Some of my favorite books recently include: