Raised throughout Latin America, I now live in Los Angeles. I am a tech founder, and selectively angel invest and advise tech startups. I’m a venture partner at Also Capital, where we back builders of the hardest things (aerospace, robotics, RF, etc.).
I love working to increase access:
I am currently exploring ways to increase access to stable and affordable property insurance, addressing challenges driven by climate change, inflation, and regulatory failures.
I co-founded Juicebox, an open-source project aimed at allowing everyone to secure their most valuable data and assets by solving issues related to key management.
I co-founded goTenna, with the goal of increasing access to connectivity. Over the course of a decade, goTenna has become the leader in mobile mesh networking. We make the world’s smallest, lightest, and most cost-effective tactical communications system, now used by over 350 government agencies. Our hardware, paired our novel Aspen Grove mesh protocol, enable connectivity independent of cell, wifi, and satellite.
I founded a national volunteer project, aimed at increasing voters’ access to information about core societal issues through the lens of a grassroots political candidate’s record. (Founding statement here.)
Here’s a list of books I love and recommend:
Apeirogon by Collum McCann
How to Love Your Daughter by Hila Blum
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
The Counterlife by Philip Roth
Democracy by Joan Didion
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
Conquest of the Useless by Werner Herzog
La ronde de nuit (Night Rounds) by Patrick Modiano
Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
Toward a Psychology of Awakening by John Welwood
No Bad Parts by Richard D. Schwartz
El diario de Frida Kahlo (The Diary of Frida Kahlo) by Frida Kahlo
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Raising the Floor by Andy Stern
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer