The story so far
The 2020s
Founder at , an AI-native presentation tool. Think Cursor, but for slides. The thesis is simple: how you present something matters as much as what you're presenting. You bring the thinking, Chronicle handles the design.
Accel led one of the largest rounds () of its time, and we brought on stellar angels from Google, Slack, Stripe, and Atlassian. We've since grown the team to 20 across San Francisco 🇺🇸, Australia 🇦🇺, and India 🇮🇳, and the next chapter of Chronicle is taking shape.
On GTM and product, I'm obsessed with the first 60 seconds of a user's experience. They need to feel the difference immediately, enough to place Chronicle in their workflow so that the next time a high-stakes deck comes up, it's the first tool they reach for. Not a marginal improvement. A over whatever they were using. Onboarding isn't bells and whistles. It's proving what's possible with their own inputs, in real time. That bar didn't come from intuition alone. It came from a set of product principles we refined through years of shipping and watching what actually stuck.
Our obsession with the initial experience showed up in the results. We went viral on Twitter with our , then again with . We hit on Product Hunt, competing against thousands of products across every category like Notion, Cursor and Lovable.
On the side, I'm constantly tinkering on hobby projects. I played competitive football for 20 years (watched it at every level, flew to Russia for the ), and I've slowly traded the pitch for the pavement. I have now been running half marathons for the past few months, with a personal best at the Oakland Marathon in 2026. That obsession led me to build .
Same story with coffee. What started as a casual habit turned into an obsession that's taken me through cafes in over , always searching for the perfect flat white. I started logging and rating every spot, and eventually that turned into this , a neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood guide to every spot worth knowing in the city.
The mid-2010s
Before Chronicle, I was in Singapore at , Asia Pacific's #1 omnichannel luxury beauty company, operating across 15 high-growth markets from Singapore to India, with a portfolio of over 120 of the world's most prestigious brands including Hermès, Dior, Bvlgari, and Chanel. Reporting to the Group CEO, I worked on the strategic bets that would define the company's next chapter across APAC. At that level, nobody reads a 40-page report. They read the story you put in front of them for 20 minutes, and that story determines what happens next.
Before Singapore, three years in , working directly with the APAC CEO across US and APAC geographies. Brand and positioning weren't side conversations. They were the core of business strategy. The lesson that stuck: how something is packaged changes how it's received, whether you're selling to a boardroom or to a consumer.
Somewhere in this stretch, my turned into something more hands-on. I've always brought people together around a table. It's been my move in every city I've lived in. Eventually I designed my own: , a custom card pack. When you care about how things look and feel, even game night becomes a design project.
The early 2010s
Rewind further: , where I did a bachelor's in Computational Physics. Simulations and mathematical models by day. Typography, layout, and color theory by night, entirely self-taught. Two worlds that had no reason to overlap. But that intersection, analytical rigour meeting visual instinct, turned out to be the foundation for everything.
At 16, I turned that instinct into my first business. I built an online platform selling . The jerseys were the same as everyone else's. The store wasn't. It looked better, and people bought from me because of it. Same product, better packaging. First proof of concept for an idea I'd test for the next fifteen years: taste is leverage.
The 2000s
The instinct showed up early. I collected and and spent more time redrawing them than trading them, studying colours, layouts, the weight of a good illustration. I in 10th grade, which opened doors. But the thing that shaped me most was the habit of looking closely.