About Me

I'm a husband, father of three, and serial entrepreneur.

My first company didn't work. My second almost did — a B2B marketplace in that became the leading platform of its kind before I sold it in 2015. I moved to Toronto to do my MBA at the University of Toronto, where I stumbled into the Creative Destruction Lab — a startup accelerator that has launched some of the world's most successful AI companies. There, I met three PhD scientists who were using machine learning to read scientific papers the way a scientist would. They had the science. I had the scar tissue. We founded BenchSci in 2016.

BenchSci is an AI platform for preclinical drug discovery. I've raised over $200M from Google, Generation (Al Gore's fund), TCV, Radical Ventures, Amgen, Bill Ackman, F-Prime, and Inovia. I've grown the company from four people to over 400, and today I work with 16 of the top 20 pharma companies in the world.

Along the way, I've made every mistake a founder can make — hired the wrong people and kept them too long, chased the wrong markets, raised at the wrong time, messed up the culture, scaled too fast, overhired, and more. I've also had moments I didn't expect: watching a small bet turn into a category, seeing a team rally through something that should have broken them, and learning what it actually means to lead when things are hard.

Ten years of building have taught me more than I could have learned any other way. This is where I share it.

I write about three things:

The startup journey — what it actually looks like from the inside. Fundraising, hiring, strategy, the decisions that kept me up at night, and the ones I wish I'd made differently.

AI and work — we are living through a once-in-a-generation shift in how humans and machines collaborate. I'm watching it reshape an entire industry in real time, and I have strong opinions about where it's going.

The AI Scientist — the next frontier isn't AI that assists scientists. It's AI that thinks like one. I'm building toward that future every day, and I want to document what I'm seeing as it unfolds.