I was born in Germany, and grew up all over Europe before moving to the United States to attend the University of Chicago. There, I learned to use mathematics to interpret the world around me, and that building software is the most powerful medium for creative self-expression.
I now live in San Francisco, where I learned that the most important ingredients for progress are grit, agency, and optimism. I love this city, not just for its good sunny weather, but for the culture that has shaped my adult life: the beliefs in freedom and technology to create a better tomorrow.
Press
- Limit Launches Insurance Gen AI
- Insurtech Limit launches generative AI for brokers
- Podcast: The Promise of AI in Property & Casualty
- Podcast: AI and the next Generation of Insurance
- Podcast: Profiles in Risk
- Insurtech Limit launches Bridge to directly connect retailers with carriers
- Podcast: Don't Limit Your Potential For Specialty Production
Writing
- Sovereignty in the Age of LLMs
- Long Google
- Bitcoin Without a Fight
- Nobody's Thinking Enough About AI
- Insurance for AI: Easier Said than Done
- How to Write a Good Pitch Deck
- A Bubble is Rarely A Bubble
- Everything we know about LLMs doing Arithmetic
- No More EU Fines for Big Tech
- Waymo the Leapfrog
- The End of Schematic Businesses
- Seriously, what is Intelligence?
- Notes on Arithmetic in GPT-4
- Maybe You Should Invest in Translation
- Why Europe Fails to Create Wealth
- A Timeline of the OpenAI Board
- What I Wanted from WeWork
- Approaches to Software Engineering that Worked for Me
- Why is there no Government-Built Social Media?
- 15 Years of Market Gaps for Browsers and Browser Extensions
- Bundling and Unbundling of Email
- AI Creates Returns to Taste
- Avoid Polish to find Product-Market-Fit
- SVB and to Build on the Shoulders of Giants
- Bring Back Idiomatic Design
- Commonalities among Founders in Music and Software
- What Happens to Startups in the Next Recession?
- Adventures in Deleting Tweets
- Fragmentation in Cryptocurrencies
- Implicit Currencies: Commerce Without Dollars
- Apple and Consumer Choice
- Notes on John D. Rockefeller
- Optimizing for the Wrong Variable
- Fama-French Factors and Parameter Optimization
- Sharing Economy: Big Shifts, Big Problems
- Set and the Elm Language
- Reflections on the Recurse Center
Bookshelf
The true test of any media is how much you think about it afterwards. Some thoughts take a long time to gestate. Below are some of my all-time favorites: these are still often on my mind, even many years later.
Fiction
Non-fiction
Founding
In April 2020, I co-founded Limit with my friends Alex Becker, Yoav Shaked, and Shea McNamara. We changed the daily lives of thousands of insurance professionals with our two products: Limit AI, a suite of AI workflow tools, and Limit Wholesale, our digital insurance brokerage. I served as CEO for five years, from day one until passing the torch when we were acquired by McGowan, one of the oldest, largest, and most respected insurance organizations in the United States.
Venture
- Arctype (Acquired by Clickhouse)
- Atomic
- Carry
- Causal (Acquired by Lucanet)
- Darkweb IQ
- Daimo
- Edge
- Flannel (Acquired by Plaid)
- Flowglad
- HealthKey
- Impulse Labs
- Mercury
- Sante
- Silna Health
- Spark
- Unwind Finance
- Vial