Graduated from Oxford, completed a stint in big corporate as a strategy consultant for Oliver Wyman and worked as software engineer #9 for an early stage start-up. Now building meetmore.ai! My interests fall into two main buckets:
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Tech, start-ups and entrepreneurship. Tech is powerful. Start-ups and Entrepreneurship taught me its gift of agency, leverage and freedom. I’m extremely lucky to have been born in the blip of time between Agricultural Feudalism and AGI feudalism. I do not intend to let my luck go to waste and am passionate about making an outsized, positive impact on the world.
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Everything else. I love learning and there are so many things that capture my interest. From macro-economics to aspects of human psychology to state-building and everything in between! Sucks that competition means you can’t make as much time to just chill and read to your hearts content. But one day….
Some Building Highlights
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BookB - A Netflix for Physical Books (Apr 2019 - Dec 2019)
What:
We delivered and collected books from the library for £10/month. The libraries were our distribution network and our catalogue. It was a sweet deal.
Progress:
Deployed with paying customers
Secured a pilot with a Local Gov (12+ libraries) in 1.5 months. some said it would take 8.
Accepted into public.io - Europe’s leading GovTech Accelerator
Autopsy:
We took a year out of University to pursue this and didn’t feel like we made enough progress to justify dropping out. Worst call made in history because COVID happened 4 months later.
Proudest Achievements:
I learnt how to code: Our technical co-founder left midway. I hated being dependent on anyone else for the most minor of things and wanted to continue our journey. 2 months later I shipped our product.
We bypassed the bureaucracy: by finding the public numbers of local gov leaders and whatsapping them a short deck :)
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Dowdier - Feedback on GCSE English Answers with AI (2022)
What:
An indiehacker project where I finetuned GPT3 on English GCSE Mark schemes and charged £10/month for instant graded reviews + feedback.
Progress:
couple hundred users, pitifully low number of them paying.
Super easy to get users on board from DM’s in student forums where kids would be asking for feedback all the time (e.g. studentroom.com)
Autopsy:
Easy to acquire, Impossible to get to pay. Market to budget holders.
Proudest Achievements:
Learnt how to manage content: Discovered the benefits of using a headless CMS.
Kept motivated: Somehow hit my evening / weekend deployment goals while working as Engineer #9.
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