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↳ I grew up in the Greater Toronto Area.. So basically, I'm not actually from Toronto, but I will very confidently lie and tell other people I'm from Toronto. Ah, the cn tower..I think I've heard it before..
Things I am actually passionate about outside of School or Work:
Things I am actually passionate about outside of School or Work:
↳ Ex-Athlete. Played competitive sports growing up like snowboard racing, hockey, volleyball, tennis, badminton, basketball. Sometimes I wish I spent that time into c++ growing up, but I don't regret the social hustle and community aspect. Why? business case comp, tech sales, british parliment debate, financial competition, etc
↳ I've liked Poker since gr8. One of my current favourite pro players is Shiina Okamoto(Japan's female Phil Ivey), She's an ex-investment banker, (quit job to go pro)
And I believe there is a skill gap (she's abusing) between Shiina and the rest of the female pros. She's much more cold-blooded / sharper math playing range instinct than her WSOP competition at least. She finds exploits/vulnerabilities well,
and very capable of rivalling the male pros as she continues to study hard. Even though she can barely speak english in her analysis, I fear lots of thoughtful strategy through her polarizing loose yet bully-aggresive style. She is rather dangerous and uncomfortable to play against in her prime. (Dominating in ICM tournaments, not cash)
And I believe there is a skill gap (she's abusing) between Shiina and the rest of the female pros. She's much more cold-blooded / sharper math playing range instinct than her WSOP competition at least. She finds exploits/vulnerabilities well,
and very capable of rivalling the male pros as she continues to study hard. Even though she can barely speak english in her analysis, I fear lots of thoughtful strategy through her polarizing loose yet bully-aggresive style. She is rather dangerous and uncomfortable to play against in her prime. (Dominating in ICM tournaments, not cash)
↳ Poker also gave me the only grading system I actually trust. You can play a hand perfectly and lose it, play it terribly and win it, and if you grade yourself on the result you end up learning the wrong lesson twice. So you grade the decision instead. Winter 2024 I finished Rank #1 on the UW Poker Club tournament circuit, and almost none of that came from hands I remember winning — it came from folding well in spots where everyone else was pot-committed to their own ego.
↳ Markets found me before code did. My family background revolves around them, so in highschool I assumed I liked financial markets, when really I had just inherited the opinion and hadn't earned it yet.
What turned it into something real was doing the work. At JW Capital Management I sat inside a research process trying to predict where energy supply would surface in real estate through proprietary data — pytorch, numpy, and a very healthy amount of being wrong. At YRT Capital I now run the thematic and quantitative side myself: research, options, portfolio construction, on paper and personal accounts.
I care much less about finance as a career label than I do about the loop underneath it. Write down a thesis. Size it honestly. Let the market tell you whether you were thinking clearly or just talking confidently. There are very few places left in life that score you that fairly, and markets and poker are two of them, which I don't think is a coincidence.
What turned it into something real was doing the work. At JW Capital Management I sat inside a research process trying to predict where energy supply would surface in real estate through proprietary data — pytorch, numpy, and a very healthy amount of being wrong. At YRT Capital I now run the thematic and quantitative side myself: research, options, portfolio construction, on paper and personal accounts.
I care much less about finance as a career label than I do about the loop underneath it. Write down a thesis. Size it honestly. Let the market tell you whether you were thinking clearly or just talking confidently. There are very few places left in life that score you that fairly, and markets and poker are two of them, which I don't think is a coincidence.
↳ The entrepreneurship thing started long before I had a word for it. My favourite version was private snowboard instruction — I sourced my own clients, set my own rates, and learned very quickly that the snowboarding was never the hard part. Then Caplift, where four of us took a matchmaking engine for lenders and SMB's from zero to ~$20k ARR in the first two months, mostly through Reddit and loan shark partnerships that nobody would describe as an elegant GTM strategy. Then Flair, where I led product on an AI shopping app to 200+ users and a top 5% YC S25 application that we ultimately walked away from.
None of these are big companies and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. But it's the same loop every time, and it's the loop I keep coming back to: find something people will actually pay for, ship it before you feel ready, then go figure out why it worked so you can do it on purpose the next time.
None of these are big companies and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. But it's the same loop every time, and it's the loop I keep coming back to: find something people will actually pay for, ship it before you feel ready, then go figure out why it worked so you can do it on purpose the next time.
↳ If I'm honest about what I'm actually good at, it isn't being the smartest person in the room. It's being the one who asks what we're actually solving before everyone starts arguing about how. Enough case comps and debate rounds to be comfortable being wrong out loud, and enough startups to know that being wrong quietly is the thing that actually kills you.
↳ If anything about my background speaks to you, please do reach out, I would love to make new friends and get to know more people !