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I'm determined to give back to other students like me by helping them leverage learning as powerful enablers for careers in tech and VC. I am a lifelong learner and someone who's constantly felt underestimated his whole life. In fact, storytelling will be the greatest skill of the 21st century (imho). Storytelling has a place in tech whether you believe it or not. I love leveraging storytelling in business. I am deeply passionate about supporting founders, especially diverse and underrepresented founders, as early as possible in their journeys.

#ROUGH DRAFT VENTURES SOFTWARE#

There's nothing more addicting than helping founders validate ideas, meet early users, and define product roadmaps, messaging, and strategy. Currently Software Engineer Drift and Partnerships TechTogether. I love working with early-stage entrepreneurs. investors that include NextView Ventures, Kindred Ventures, Dorm Room Fund, Rough Draft Ventures, and Switch Ventures and is headquartered in New York. To date, RDV has backed more than 100 companies founded by undergraduate, MBA, and PhD entrepreneurs. While the company tanked, I learned an incredible amount about who I am and want to be: Rough Draft Ventures is building and supporting the largest network of student entrepreneurs. With this knowledge, I launched and scaled my first (failed) company, dormops, to bring Gen Z marketing to local businesses across the US. GTM, branding, competitive positioning.). I learned that storytelling, which I considered a weakness in tech, actually has outsized impact for early-stage entrepreneurs who spend every waking moment thinking about storytelling (i.e. Every semester since then, I've worked at a different startup as an undergraduate, operating in product, design, marketing, and leadership roles across industries like edtech and CPG. I immediately fell in love with the space. What was supposed to be my gateway into the world of publishing turned into my introduction to the world of tech and VC. I was stoked to find a role where I could write amazing stories about business (a space I always admired but never explored). So, one of the first internships I took in college was with a VC newsletter called The Buzz (now Storied). As a voracious storyteller with a love for languages, I saw publishing as my best option for leveraging my passions into a career.

They invest checks through founder-friendly SAFEs via their network of student fellows, supplying the brightest student founders across the US with meaningful resources, access to education, and one of their earliest support systems. Four years ago, I had my heart set on a career in publishing. Rough Draft Ventures is a student-led team that funds technology-focused university entrepreneurs.

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