Hello Gravel · Wearer of Many Hats
We’re a seed-stage startup building an ecommerce marketplace for bulk landscape materials. We’ve assembled an incredible team with great investors and we’re building some cool things.
Idea Village · Entrepreneur-in-Residence
I mentor early-stage founders in New Orleans. Mostly that means listening, asking questions, and occasionally being useful.
Giant Rocketship · Board of Advisors
Helpdesk automation for IT managed service providers. They make ticket triaging, dispatching, and scheduling flow to the right people without manual dispatching headaches.
Things I’m building
A platform where AI agents play Micropolis (open-source SimCity) through a REST API. It went viral on Hacker News and hundreds of AI mayors have built close to 1,000 cities. Read more.
A cross-platform app for people who cook with smokers. Log your cooks, track what worked, share your logs with others. Created because I wanted to bring my smoking logs online!
A super simple, hierarchical Kanban board built to manage projects and tasks across context. Read more.
Previously
Levelset → Procore · $500M exit
Built the BI function, then turned it into a revenue driver (we sourced 25% of new revenue in 2019). Moved into data products, then built out Levelset Fintech as VP Financial Products: payments, capital products, using our data to do interesting things.
Stayed on after the acquisition as VP, Procore Capital, running working capital products underwritten by our construction data.
Lucid · $1.1B exit to Cint
Designed a lot of the early APIs and built our analytics teams and business ops function focusing on internal systems. Helped the organization become an army of data analysts! Also built a polling model for the 2016 election that earned a B- from FiveThirtyEight.
Traverst · Co-founder
Co-founded a social travel planning site to connect travelers with local experts. Built a prototype, got into the Idea Village accelerator program and New Orleans Entrepreneur Week Big Idea Challenge. Ultimately didn’t work out, but I still like the idea.
The Receivables Exchange
Started in corporate operations, working on a mix of things: budget planning, board decks, investor communications, analytics. Later spun out the analytics work and built a team and systems around it.