Path to Founder
Optimize Me
AI-powered health intelligence platform
OptimizeMe started as something I was building for myself. I wanted to understand my own biology well enough to design a lifestyle around it, a catalyst on the journey to becoming my best self. In the time I've been developing it I've shared it a few times, and every time the interest and the belief have been massive.
Start by sharing whatever you've got.
— Derek Sivers
That's what I aspire to do. Give everyone their own personal health operating system, powered by your health agent, Opti.
DealHog
Valuation and deal sourcing platform
DealHog came out of the work I did in my MFin around valuation, M&A, and capital structure. The more I sat with those mechanics, the more I saw how little of that framework actually reaches the B2B layer of the market. Not the institutional deals, but the ones operators make with each other every day.
Multi-unit operators are always looking to grow their portfolios. Seasoned single-location owners are often ready to retire. Buyers, sellers, and aspiring owners all need the same thing: a place to settle on value ranges and map out their options. DealHog is an early concept for what that layer of M&A could look like when it's built around those conversations.
Happy Valley Tallow
Premium rendered tallow products
Happy Valley Tallow is my first venture into a tangible physical product. I've always been drawn to holistic and natural things, and tallow felt like the right place to start. Simple, honest, rooted in something far older than almost anything on a shelf today.
The idea came from the drive to class. State College sits in the middle of what people around here call The Happy Valley, and every morning the smell of the farms on the way in made it clear this place runs on working land. A small physical-product venture felt like the right way to sharpen business acumen and real product taste at the same time.