Story

I am the son of two entrepreneurs and grew up talking about entrepreneurship and business around the dinner table.

When I was little, my brother and I would run lemonade stands outside of our house. In elementary school, I wrote book reports and did presentations on successful entrepreneurs for class projects.

Over the last 20 years, I've become passionate about purpose-driven businesses, innovative social ventures, and risky, early-stage solutions to society's biggest challenges.​

What has struck me most about entrepreneurship is how different it is from traditional school (I was never the best student and struggled to fit into the standard academic mold).

The rules of the classroom are sequential: first you study and only then are you evaluated.

The rules of entrepreneurship are dynamic: you learn by doing, by constantly iterating and testing and getting real-time feedback.

While traditional school is fundamentally about you and your knowledge, entrepreneurship is about the relationship between you and the world.

It invites each of us into a humble posture of continuous learning and curiosity. It reminds us that we are, like our businesses, constantly a work-in-progress.

If I learned anything as an entrepreneur and CEO, it's that being an entrepreneur is incompatible with being a perfectionist, but despite its imperfections and incompleteness, I see the process of building a company, a culture, and a team as a never-ending work of art.